The government has busted a $2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving pain pills, unnecessary services and physicians from Michigan, according to a Detroit Free Press report.
Eight people were charged and accused of running a fraudulent diagnostic testing scheme out of World Health Care in Redford, Mich., and Wyoming Medical Centers in East Lansing, Mich., according to the report.
Recruiters allegedly funneled Medicare beneficiaries in Southeast Michigan to Russell Crispell, DO, who was employed by World Health Care. The patients would then undergo medically unnecessary tests in order to receive a prescription for Oxycontin, which was then sold for further distribution, according to the charges.
Virinder Grewal, MD, was also indicted in the scheme.
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