$452 million in false Medicare billing

107 individuals, including doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals, are charged with participating in Medicare fraud schemes involving $452 million in false billing.

The Medicare Fraud Task Force made the arrests in Miami, Houston, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Los Angeles, Detroit and Tampa.

The charges included unnecessary medical treatments and care that was never provided.

To read the Health and Human Services press release, click on

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/05/20120502b.html