ANNOUNCE: DME & Orthotic "stores" used as front for medical identity theft by Russian mob
Elizabeth Mansfield
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Title:
ANNOUNCE: DME & Orthotic "stores" used as front for medical identity theft by Russian mob
Creator:
Elizabeth Mansfield
Date:
7/9/2008
Text:
From the Williamette (Oregon) Weekly
Investigators found much of that increase was due to fraud. In 2006, federal inspectors revoked the licenses of 634 DME suppliers in South Florida, nearly half the DME dealers in the region. Later the same year, raids in Southern California yielded similar results: The feds shut down 95 DME suppliers.
Many of the DME suppliers shut down around Los Angeles were run by immigrants from the former Soviet Union. It’s probably no coincidence that when the feds raided Los Angeles DME suppliers, some Angelenos fled to cities where there was less scrutiny—such as Portland. (Oregon)
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Investigators found much of that increase was due to fraud. In 2006, federal inspectors revoked the licenses of 634 DME suppliers in South Florida, nearly half the DME dealers in the region. Later the same year, raids in Southern California yielded similar results: The feds shut down 95 DME suppliers.
Many of the DME suppliers shut down around Los Angeles were run by immigrants from the former Soviet Union. It’s probably no coincidence that when the feds raided Los Angeles DME suppliers, some Angelenos fled to cities where there was less scrutiny—such as Portland. (Oregon)
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Citation
Elizabeth Mansfield, “ANNOUNCE: DME & Orthotic "stores" used as front for medical identity theft by Russian mob,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 24, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/229553.
