Dr Oz Exposes Massive Medicaid Fraud in New York involving Chinese Gangsters

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Medicaid czar Dr Mehmet Oz says Chines crime syndicates are defrauding the taxpayer of huge amounts of money through fraud, especially in New York.

In an interview on Sunday, Oz talked about the incredible scale of Medicaid fraud taking place in the Big Apple, which spends $110 billion a year on medical bills.

“Social safety net programs are being defrauded. They’re being hurt oftentimes by foreign governments or foreign-run criminal syndicate organizations,” Oz said on 77 WABC ‘s the “Cats Roundtable” program.

Oz recently visited New York to investigated over 60 adult-care centers that are accused of stealing millions of dollars in federal money. Oz was joined by independent journalist Nick Shirley, who was helped expose massive organized benefit fraud across the US, including among Somalis in Minnesota.

The care centers, which serve mostly Chinese and Korean senior citizens, have generated enormous bills to Medicaid, many of which may be completely fraudulent.

“Normally, the government doesn’t pay for it. In New York, they’ve created a mechanism to pay for these programs,” Oz told host John Catsimatidis.

“These are run, we believe, under the auspices of the Chinese organized criminal groups that are also doing human trafficking in the East Coast.”

Oz explained that scammers bribe seniors to gave access to their Medicaid and Medicare cards, which they then use to submit fraudulent bills.

“There are a dozen pharmacies on one block. Why? They’re all fake. They’re taking these Medicare beneficiary numbers and manufacturing huge businesses to fund illegal activities,” Oz said.

“They pretend they’re sending this really expensive wheelchair [to a patient. They pretend that they’re sending expensive random medications. They’re doing appointments they [patients] never go to. Tests they never get. Treatments they don’t receive or don’t need.

“And they begin to bankrupt all the legitimate people, because they make so much money … These programs have generated $2.1 billion against New York Medicaid.”

Oz believes such fraud is not a “flaw” of the system, but a “feature”—one encouraged by New York’s government, which allows personal care workers to unionize and then provide funding for Democrat politicians in the state.

“Fraud is rising because government wants it to exist,” he said.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul defended her record in a written statement.

“Well before the Trump administration even took office, Governor Hochul was leading efforts to root out waste, fraud and abuse – including sweeping CDPAP [Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program], reforms that shut down hundreds of wasteful Medicaid middlemen and saved over $2 billion for state and federal taxpayers while protecting home care for those who need it.

“New York will continue to work with the federal government to identify bad actors — but let’s be clear about the real goal for Donald Trump and Washington Republicans: eliminating programs that support our most vulnerable and ripping away healthcare from everyday New Yorkers.”

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