Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Former drug dealers switching over to Medicare fraud as a lucrative career shift. From cocaine to the Cogan Syndrome, many drug dealers in South Florida have been slowly but steadily switching over to Medicare fraud in the past three years. An article posted on www.npr.org says the FBI has interviewed those that have been arrested and, according to Malcolm Sparrow of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the primary reason they give is, "there's more money, there's much less chance of being caught and if I do get caught, I'll be treated like a white-collar criminal, not like a drug dealer." And these former drug-dealers, along with other healthcare fraudsters in South Florida, have been preparing themselves all along for tougher times. More federal enforcement means that scammers are scrambling to devise schemes for siphoning off public money, a recent article in the South Florida Business Journal reveals. According to Cecilia [...]