601 charged with health care fraud or prescribing opioids

AG Sessions calls it “the largest health care fraud takedown” in history. Charging innocent physicians with fraud is the DOJ plan to support their burgeoning agency costs.

This attack involves 165 medical professionals including 76 doctors, 23 pharmacists, and 19 nurses. 162 of these defendants were charged with prescribing opioids. Thirty states were involved. Also as a result of the government attack, 2700 professionals have been excluded from Medicare and Medicaid, which includes 587 providers excluded because of opioid prescriptions.

As usual, the government works on setting the propaganda stage making doctors look greedy: “In many cases, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists take advantage of people suffering from drug addiction in order to line their pockets,” Sessions said,

“The perpetrators really are despicable and greedy people,” DHHS Secretary Alex M. Azar III, said.

Really? So now they are going after nurses with “they’re in it for the money?”  Maybe people will start to understand that that statement isn’t true of doctors or pharmacists either. They do what is required by their knowledge and training.  It’s the government that is in it for the money.

Government agents who need to lose their jobs over this illegal activity include AG Sessions, Secretary Azar, Asst. AG John Cronan, FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich DEA Asst. Admin. John Martin HHS Deputy IG Gary Cantrell, IRS Deputy Chief Eric Hylton, CMS Deputy Administrator Alec Alexander and DCIS Director Dermot F. O’Reilly and any other agency perpetrators, which Sessions attributed to be around 1,000 individuals.

The charges targeted providers for billing Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and private insurance companies (usually Blue Cross/Blue Shield who is in cahoots with the government to criminalize their providers) for “medically unnecessary prescription drugs and compounded medications” and opioids. But thanks to the government attacks like this against good, innocent professionals, now, in their own admission, approximately 115 Americans die every day of an opioid-related overdose.

Sessions brags about hiring more prosecutors and leveraging the power of data analytics. In other words, they use the PMP to target doctors. This attack is the largest ever charged in a single operation. And with the laws being considered in Congress, they are making attacks like this easier.

DEA Assistant Administrator Martin lied through his teeth when he said “DEA will continue to work to protect our citizens while ensuring that patients have adequate access to these critical medications.”

 “It takes a special kind of person to prey on the sick and vulnerable” said Deputy Chief Hylton.

Yes, it surely does. And the agents involved in these schemes to rob innocent medical providers of their income to fund their own salaries and bonuses are such people. They point the finger, saying “Greed”, but three fingers are pointing back at themselves.

The Medicare Fraud Strike Force operates in 10 locations nationwide.  Since its inception in March 2007, it has charged over 3,700 defendants and stolen back $14 billion of those defendant’s lawfully acquired income. THAT is the definition of greed.

Here are the statistics for the latest attacks as published by the DOJ:

 46 U.S. Attorney’s Offices instigated the execution of  search warrants in the Central and Northern Districts of California, Middle District of Florida, Southern District of Georgia, Western District of Kentucky, Eastern District of Michigan, Western District of North Carolina, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, and Western District of Washington.

In addition, in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Washington, 97 defendants have been charged for over $27 million.

Additional documents related to this announcement will shortly be available here:  https://www.justice.gov/opa/documents-and-resources-june-28-2018.Imagine that! One week later and this link is no longer available on the DOJ website. I wonder what they are trying to hide. But for DoC members interested in the information that WAS here, I have it and you can request it.

Notice to chronic pain patients: This illegal action of the government is what is going to destroy more CPP lives. You need to get on board DoC members and support our efforts to meet legislators in Washington and trips around the East Coast to speak on your behalf.  To join, go to Membership levels.

Addendum

The government is in collusion with insurance companies and law enforcement to manipulate data to find and target prescribers of opioids.  See the exposure of this in the posts listed below.  Sharing confidential patient data has got to end.  Be a part of the change you want to see. Join us through the links below.