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WASHINGTON<\/strong> — The federal government announced a crackdown in six cities resulting in charges against 90 people, including 27 doctors, for participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving $260 million in false billings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Affordable Care Act has given us additional tools to preserve Medicare and protect the tens of millions of Americans who rely on it each day,\u201d said Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. \u201cBy expanding our authority to suspend Medicare payments and reimbursements when fraud is suspected, the law allows us to better preserve the system and save taxpayer dollars. Today we\u2019re sending a strong, clear message to anyone seeking to defraud Medicare: You will get caught and you will pay the price. We will protect a sacred trust and an earned guarantee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since their inception in March 2007, the Medical Strike Force operations in nine locations have charged almost 1,900 defendants who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare <\/a>program for almost $6 billion.<\/p>\n

In addition, federal agents have suspended enrollments of high-risk providers in five Strike force locations and has removed over 17,000 providers from the Medicare program since 2011.<\/p>\n

Collectively, the doctors, nurses, licensed medical professionals, health care company owners and others charged are accused of conspiring to submit approximately $260 million in fraudulent billings.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, the defendants allegedly participated in schemes to submit claims to Medicare for treatments that were medically unnecessary and often never provided.<\/p>\n

In many cases, court documents allege that patient recruiters, Medicare beneficiaries and other co-conspirators were paid cash kickbacks in return for supplying beneficiary information to providers, so that the providers could then submit fraudulent bills to Medicare for services that were medically unnecessary or never performed.<\/p>\n

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