The most successful Medicare Fraud Strike Force sent health care scammers scurrying all over the country — but hasn’t come close to running out of cases on its own turf.
The Southern District of Florida accounted for 18 percent of health care fraud defendants nationwide from 2009 through 2014. This fiscal year it has charged 179 people with health care fraud — its highest total since 2009.
“I’m surprised that after all of these years, prosecuting these cases and defendants receiving pretty hefty sentences, it’s still going on,” said Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. attorney for Southern Florida.
Source: Ferretting out health care fraud in Florida and Detroit