Atlanta: Medicaid fraud costs Georgian taxpayers millions of dollars

For those people who do not have health insurance in Atlanta, GA and rely on the Medicare and Medicaid systems in Attlanta, GA the news that a group of fraudsters is now behind bars should come as a relief. In Atlanta, GA a federal jury on Oct. 5, 2009 returned a guilty verdict in a health care fraud scheme that used forged doctors’ prescriptions for high-dollar cancer and HIV medications. Recruiting several "insiders" the cost of those medications were billed to the Georgia Medicaid program, resulting in an approximately $1.1 million loss to state and federal taxpayers.

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State and federal agencies in Georgia are geared up to pursue and stop identity thieves from defrauding our health care programs, and from victimizing others, including innocent patients and doctors, who are hurt by such schemes.

Defrauding the medicaid system in Atlanta, GA and elsewhere across Georgia and the United States is costing the country dearly. Not only in monies stolen, stolen and forged prescriptions, stolen patient information, and the drugs themselves - but in increased health insurance costs and confidence in the system. In obtaining the recent conviction, the Georgia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has plugged one of the many holes in a system being looked at by the Obama administration as a way to help pay for the new health insurance bill currently tabled in the house.