Federal prosecutors have charged about 20 people in the past two weeks with alleged involvement in various fraud schemes related to the Covid-19 pandemic, amounting to about $ 150 million in illegal government lawsuits, about 20 million of which have been paid, they said. employees.
The allegations come as the Justice Department intensifies its efforts to uncover thefts from programs that pumped billions of dollars into the healthcare system since the 2020 pandemic. some health care providers have tried to deceive Medicare and other programs by combining fees for unnecessary services – or ones that were never provided – with the delivery of relatively inexpensive tests for Covid-19.
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