{"id":85173,"date":"2023-06-29T02:17:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85173"},"modified":"2023-06-29T02:14:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T06:14:02","slug":"justice-department-charges-78-people-with-2-5-billion-in-health-care-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2023\/justice-department-charges-78-people-with-2-5-billion-in-health-care-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department charges 78 people with $2.5 billion in health-care fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/national-enforcement-action-results-78-individuals-charged-25b-health-care-fraud\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Justice<\/a> announced Wednesday that it has recently charged 78 people with $2.5 billion in separate health-care fraud and opioid abuse schemes. The defendants allegedly defrauded programs used to take care of elderly and disabled people, and in some cases used the ill-gotten money to buy exotic cars, jewelry and yachts, the DOJ said. Among those charged are 11 defendants accused of submitting $2 billion in fraudulent claims through telemedicine, as well as 10 defendants charged in connection with fraudulent prescription drug claims<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/28\/doj-charges-78-people-with-2point5-billion-in-health-care-fraud.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has recently charged 78 people with $2.5 billion in separate health-care fraud and opioid abuse schemes. The defendants allegedly defrauded programs used to take care of elderly and disabled people, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85174,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions\/85174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}