The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division just posted its second consecutive week of more than $1 billion in fraud enforcement actions. The headline case: a federal jury in South Florida convicted the man behind a massive Medicare billing machine that targeted hundreds of thousands of seniors.
Brett Blackman, 42, founder, owner, and CEO of a health care software company called HealthSplash, was found guilty on May 13 on three conspiracy counts tied to a scheme that billed Medicare and other federal health care programs more than $1 billion for medically unnecessary equipment.
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The figure is hard to miss: one billion dollars.
And Medicare actually paid out more than $450 million on those claims before the operation was stopped.
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