A healthcare fraud enforcement action has resulted in federal charges against of 25 Southern California defendants for their alleged involvement in healthcare fraud schemes that fraudulently sought over $150 million from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as private insurers and union health benefit plans. Fourteen of those charged in federal court in Los Angeles and Santa Ana are doctors or medical professionals. The charges target schemes billing Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare plans for services, testing and prescriptions that were not medically necessary or not actually provided to beneficiaries.
