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Health/Medical Title: DOJ Charges 400 People [opioids, healthcare fraud] The Department of Justice, spearheaded by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, just charged over 400 licensed medical professionals with the mishandling of prescriptions and other heath care related fraud. About a quarter of those charged were charged with opioid-related crimes. Opioid overdoses have been described as an epidemic where over 90 Americans die on average every day in what Sessions describes as trusted medical professionals
[putting] greed ahead of their patients. Per Washington Post: In what federal officials Thursday called the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, 412 individuals, including 115 doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, were arrested in a nationwide operation that involved more than 1,000 law enforcement agents in at least 30 states. Those involved are responsible for unlawful distribution of opioids, which may be leading to increases in overdoses: The investigation particularly focused on medical professionals who were involved in the unlawful distribution of opioids and other prescription narcotics, officials said. The abuse of pharmaceutical opioids is widely blamed for a medical crisis involving tens of thousands of overdoses on heroin and fentanyl. Several of the doctors who were charged used federal dollars to fund their operation and many lives may have been lost as a result: Approximately 91 Americans die every day of an opioid related overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among the 412 defendants, 120 were charged with opioid-related crimes. Six of the doctors were charged with operating a scheme in Michigan to prescribe patients with unnecessary opioids, some of which were then sold on the street. The doctors allegedly billed Medicare for $164 million in false and fraudulent claims, according to federal officials. Poster Comment: Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
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Nearly 70,000 people on Medicare's drug plan received extreme amounts of narcotic painkillers in 2016 and more than 22,000 others appeared to be doctor shopping for drugs, patterns that put both groups at serious risk of opioid misuse or overdose, a government watchdog reported Thursday.
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