More than 50 Medicare fraud suspects indicted - South Florida Business Journal:

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The indictments were returned by a grand jury in Detroif as part ofa multi-agency investigation focusingg on infusion therapy and physical/occupational therapy providers. Accordint to the indictments, the defendants submitted claims to Medicare for treatment s that weremedically unnecessary, and often nevere provided. The indictments allege that in many cases the beneficiariess accepted cash kickbacks in return for allowingf providers to submit forms sayinb they had received the unnecessary and notprovided treatments, accordin to a Justice Department news Since its inception in March 2007 with phases one in South Florida and expansion to phased two in Los Angeles in May the strike force has obtained indictments againsg more than 250 individuals and organizationw that collectively have billed Medicare more than $600 million, according to the news On , prosecutors in Miamj announced eight people were indicted in a separate Medicarw fraud case totalling $100