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Mehmet Oz: “The organization I run doles out about $1.75 trillion a…”

Featuring: Mehmet Oz, Republican | Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | National

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Dr. Mehmet Oz: Exposing Up to $4 Billion in Healthcare Fraud in California

Published | Video Starts at 11:08

But the system works if people are paid appropriately for doing their jobs. The opportunities to defraud Medicare and Medicaid are huge because The organization I run doles out about $1.75 trillion a year. It's a lot of money. And the problem is that to defraud it, you basically could arm yourself by getting the beneficiary number of just one of those people over 65 or on Medicaid. (11:08–11:14)

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