Scammers took more than $100 million meant for senior citizens’ Medicare bills, which comes from taxpayer money.
The swindlers were only caught after making $3 billion worth of fake Medicare claims. CBS News Chicago found victims and fraudsters here in Illinois.
One tiny office in northwest suburban Roselle that’s consistently submitted less than $8 million in Medicare claims a year suddenly charged more than $260 million to the government in only a few months.
But why?
And why was that huge amount for urinary catheters? That was even though none of the products listed on Whaba Medical’s windows, like oxygen, walkers, scooters, and wheelchairs, are used to go to the bathroom.
“These people should be in jail,” said one Google review.