Russ Ferguson, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, joined North and South Carolina’s attorneys general and other officials on Monday in Charlotte to announce the results of a major health care fraud crackdown.
The investigation led to charges against nine people accused of defrauding Medicaid programs in both North and South Carolina, who are accused of stealing a total of around $23 million, much of it using fraudulent billing and stolen personal identifying information.
N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson said that the crackdown was made possible by new software tools that help investigators spot fraud more easily…