Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
As part of the national health care fraud takedown, federal law enforcement in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area have arrested five defendants, including a Whittier woman who participated in a scheme that submitted nearly $270 million in fraudulent claims to Medi-Cal for expensive prescription drugs, and a San Fernando Valley man who is charged with running hospice care companies that fraudulently billed Medicare $27 million, the Justice Department announced today.