When the Justice Department announced in July that the federal government would press charges against more than 400 health care providers, including 115 doctors, in the largest health care fraud bust in history, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called it “a historic day.”
“Too many trusted medical professionals like doctors, nurses, and pharmacists have chosen to violate their oaths and put greed ahead of their patients,” Sessions said in the announcement. “Amazingly, some have made their practices into multimillion dollar criminal enterprises.”
Source: Medicaid fraud in South Carolina largely tied to health care providers / The Post and Courier