Via GovHealthIT.com -
The FBI arrested 24 people May 8 in the first wave of a new strike force created to go after people and health care companies that fraudulently bill Medicare.
The arrests in South Florida were the result of data sifting by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, put together in March to pursue organizations the FBI said had collectively billed the Medicare program $142 million. The arrests bring to 38 the number of people arrested in the sweep so far.
The strike force identified the cases via real-time analysis of Medicare billing and claims data, according to the FBI.
The arrested are associated with medical-equipment supply companies that tried to defraud Medicare based on fraudulent prescriptions, the FBI said.
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