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Mehmet Oz: “There was a national DME fraud scheme that generated $1.1…”

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

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Vice President Vance and Administrator Oz Announce Actions to Address Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Published | Video Starts at 13:14

So there's no cost of goods sold. There's no inventory, there's no payroll, no one works in the place. It's empty. But they generate millions of dollars of fake bills. They There was a national DME fraud scheme that generated $1.1 billion recently in fraudulent orthotic brace orders. The beneficiaries who actually whose numbers were stolen and used, they couldn't get those products. Imagine if you're on an insulin pump. And someone steals your number and orders an insulin pump fictitiously bills Medicare. (13:14–13:22)

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Asserts the existence of a $1.1 billion national fraud scheme involving orthotic brace orders.

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