Doctors and nurses were just charged in a $900 million Medicare scam

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images In some cases, doctors took part in schemes to submit claims to Medicare and Medicaid for treatments that were not necessary and were never provided. In others, health care providers offered kickbacks to “patient recruiters” to help assemble beneficiary information that could be used in phony filings.  One of the biggest scams involved phony billings for costly prescription drugs at a time when Medicare’s drug costs are spiking. Taken together, doctors, nu...