U.S.: U.S. government recovers record Medicare fraud dollars in 2010
- $4 billion worth of Medicare fraud recovered by the government source
- » Who do we thank? The Affordable Care Act (which you may know under its other name, somebody hissing “Obamacare”). The health care reform law institutes harsher penalties for Medicare billing fraud, and those penalties came to bear in 2010 as the Justice Department filed charges against almost 300 defendants, yielding this record-setting recoup of fraudulent claims.