Investigation Uncovers Massive Medicare Fraud

<![CDATA[DME stands for Durable Medical Equipment. It's a class of medical gear which attracts a lot of fraud because Medicare agrees to pay 80% of the cost of any DME, such as a wheelchair, that is prescribed by a physician. The other factor that makes this kind of fraud appealing to criminals is that there is so much money and so many legitimate orders being submitted that it's often difficult to sort the fraud from the legitimate claims. But in this particular case, the people behind the fraud were so greedy that the sheer number of false claims caught people's attention.]]>