Doctors, Medical Equipment Providers Charged with Millions in Fraud

The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois announced two Chicago-area physicians and two medical equipment dealers have been changed with health care fraud in three separate cases involving millions of dollars in alleged fraud.U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement that each of the physicians, who were charged in separate cases, allegedly defrauded either Medicare or private health care insurers - in one case for more than $13 million - by either billing for services they never provided or inflating the services they did provide to patients.In the third case...