LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Federal agencies, attorneys general and law enforcement are teaming up to crack down on healthcare fraud.
This week, the Department of Justice announced charges against hundreds of people tied to more than $6.5 billion in false claims.
WATCH | 13 Investigates' Darcy Spears breaks down the latest on the crackdown:
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Nevadans facing charges include Marizel Yukee, a 49-year-old nurse practitioner who court records say ran mobile wound clinics in four states.
The indictment details illegal bribes, kickbacks and the targeting of elderly patients in a $906 million scam to defraud Medicare and the military's Tricare with medically unnecessary skin grafts.
"She was performing these skin substitute procedures on vulnerable elderly Americans in hospices and in nursing homes and then submitting those claims," U.S. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said on Tuesday. "She was using human beings, American citizens, as living piggy banks, and then she took the money she got from those living piggy banks and she bought $865,000 necklaces that the department seized. She bought almost a...
HELENA, Mont. — Three Montana health care providers have been arrested for claiming health services that were never provided. The Department of Justice's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit revealed over ...