The charges come in connection to a scheme which reportedly lured homeless people with a Medicaid card into a van bound for medical clinics around the city. After alleged tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless were given sneakers as they were sent off. Meanwhile, physicians, staff and billing specialists are accused of making money off false Medicaid claims. The report claims they made almost $7 million.
Networks of physicians, including podiatrists, physiologists and cardiologists allegedly billed Medicaid for services they either did not render at all, or said they spent longer time on than they did, according to the report.
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