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Re: Florida mental heath provider pays $5 million fraud settlement
Re: Florida mental heath provider pays $5 million fraud settlement -- Posted by Barbara Schwarz on 05-22-04 15:26
newzforyou@aol.com (NewzForYou) wrote in message news:<20040522102010.28998.00000950@mb-m22.aol.com>...
> Medicaid fraud costs company $5-million
>
> A health services provider used by the Citrus County jail illegally told
> doctors to bill the state Medicaid program for inmates' care.
>
> By AMY WIMMER SCHWARB, Times Staff Writer
> Published April 1, 2004
>
> The Attorney General's Office has reached a $5-million Medicaid fraud
> settlement with a company that provides or provided health services for some
> Florida prisons and county jails, including the Citrus County jail.
>
> According to a July 2003 Miami Herald article, the company at the time provided
> medical, dental, pharmacy and mental health care at 24 county jails in Florida
> and one state prison. Carrin added Wednesday that some juvenile facilities also
> were handled by EMSA.
>
> http://www.sptimes.com/2004/04/01/Citrus/Medicaid_fraud_costs_.shtml
Isn't that typically that the ARS psychiatric trolls accuse of waste
of tax payers money where is none, but don't want to hear of the
millions/billions of medical and psychiatric waste? What a bunch of
hypocrites they are.
Barbara Schwarz
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