U.S. charges 24 in $1.2 billion Medicare orthotic brace fraud

U.S. authorities on Tuesday said they have broken up a $1.2 billion Medicare fraud in which doctors, telemarketers and owners of medical equipment companies peddled medically unnecessary orthotic braces to hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled patients.

from Reuters: Health News https://reut.rs/2uWqhFi
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