Medicare Fraud

If senior citizens and others are ever going to clean-up the billions of medicare and health-care providers fraud WE WILL need to become AWARE of the culprits and EXPOSE them -- THEN we can treat them as REAL Criminals!!! Here we offer individuals the opportunity to post their views on Medicare Fraud. Let us give names of the the ones who perpetrated the fraud and the names of law enforcement officials and judges that condone this fraud or fail to provide adequate sentencing for same.

03 06 1996 18-month Sentence for Fraud -- from the Sacramento Bee -- Former Auburn psychiatrist Thomas L. Sargeant, who stole from Medicare to feed his illicit drug habit was sentenced to 18 months in federal prision. He admitted receiving more than $100,000 from the government as reinbursements for services he never provided. He had contracts to porvide treatment to residents of several convalescent homes. THINK ABOUT THIS -- He effectively made $5,555 per month on this deal if we equate serving 18 months for his rip-off of $100,000 -- who says crime doesn't pay. We are also paying $40,000 per year for his confignment. This is another example of how our justice system is not dealing with the rip-off of medicare. The judge was U. S., Magistrate Gregory G Hollows and allowed Sargeant to live at The Effort, a Sacramento drug rehab center. In imposing the sentence, U.S. District Judge Lawrence K Karlton recommended that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons assign Sargent to a camp near Spokane. The added benefit would place him near the Canadian residence of his wife and three children. Not bad treatment?
$6 billion Medicare Fraud per Year -- Health Care Experts estimate $6 billion is due to waste, fraud, and abuse. Your GAO (Government Accounting Office) reported on August 11, 1995 that health care experts estimate as much as 10 percent of national heath care spending is due to waste, fraud, and abuse.

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