Showing posts with label medicare. Show all posts
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6.03.2013

Medicare's Most Wanted

Asians behaving badly... Medicare fraud edition! Over the weekend in Los Angeles, authorities arrested a former acupuncture clinic owner -- called "one of Medicare's most-wanted fugitives" -- for billing Medicare for $2.1 million in false claims: One of Medicare's most-wanted fugitives is arrested in L.A.

44-year-old Won Suk Lee was reportedly paid about $1.2 million in bogus Medicare money, using a physical therapy clinic as a front. When an warrant for his arrest was issued last year, Lee fled to South Korea. He was promptly taken into custody at the airport when he flew back into Los Angeles on Saturday:

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