Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud nationally, aren't just over billing, Thompson said in a press conference announcing the indictments. These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system. And that's unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota. Thompson said many of the firms enrolled in the program operated out of dilapidated storefronts or run down office buildings. (05:22–05:29)
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Asserts that many companies involved in the fraud were fictitious and created to defraud the system.
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