The Department of Justice characterized the operation as one of the largest telemedicine fraud schemes ever dismantled. The agency's Fraud Division stated it will continue to leverage its resources to take down similarly complex fraud operations targeting federal funds. The scheme's primary objective was to steal from Medicare by billing for equipment that patients did not require.
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Brett Blackman Gets 19 Years for $1B Medicare Fraud
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A federal judge in Kansas has ordered a software executive to spend nearly two decades in prison for his role in a government billing scam. Brett Blackman, the owner of health care software firm DMERx, was sentenced to 19 years for orchestrating a $1B fraud against the Medicare trust fund and other federal health benefit programs. Blackman and his co-conspirators used international telemarketing to recruit hundreds of thousands of elderly and disabled Americans to accept medically unnecessary orthotic braces, then employed telemedicine doctors to sign bogus prescriptions to justify the bills.
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