NEW YORK — Medicare recipients across the country say a Brooklyn business has been fraudulently collecting taxpayer dollars for medical supplies in their names, and CBS2 Investigates has learned this company is connected to a multimillion dollar suspected fraud ring.
Investigative reporter Tim McNicholas reviewed records showing Medicare paid thousands per person for catheters that recipients say they never ordered or even needed.
A sign outside G&I Ortho Supply in Gravesend reads, “Always Here.” But neighbors tell a different story.
“I have never seen anyone in or out,” neighbor Enriqu Arroyo said.
“A long time, I don’t see nobody,” said Merdan Ozkan, who works in Gravesend.
But over the past year, someone connected to G&I Ortho has been requesting hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare for catheters.
One statement shows Medicare paid the company $1,800 last year for hundreds of catheters for a New Hampshire woman. There’s just one problem.