ATTORNEY GENERAL/DRUGS/HEALTHCARE/LEGAL/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRUMP PEOPLE/JEFF SESSIONS: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is poised to announce a major law enforcement action this week targeting health-care fraud, focusing on opioid treatment programs exploiting Obamacare insurance plans, according to two people familiar with the matter.
In what is described as a nationwide sweep with hundreds of arrests being carried out across the U.S., the Justice Department is cracking down on fraudulent claims made to some of the nation’s biggest insurers, said one of the people. People who run drug addiction treatment centers that have filed bogus claims and those who have filed reimbursement claims for drugs they then sell illegally are among those to be charged, the person said.
Arrests will be carried out in cities including Miami, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, the person said. Scores of arrests are expected in southern Florida, which is home to hundreds of residential drug addiction treatment centers, said the person. Federal prosecutors, some of whom have been working on cases for a year or more, were directed to accelerate their efforts in time for this month’s operation, the person said. The Government Accountability Office did an investigation and found last year that the sign-up process for the Affordable Care Act exchanges was ‘vulnerable to fraud.’ “
-Michael Smith, Anna Edney, Zachary Tracer, and Tom Schoenberg, “Sessions to Unveil Health-Care Fraud Crackdown This Week, Sources Say,” Bloomberg, July 12, 2017 05:16am