Remember the wandering homeless patient we wrote about a few months back who had been shipped from an Orange County hospital to L.A.'s Skid Row and dumped there? Well such incidents have been the subject of a federal investigation initiated in 2006 after the LAPD began looking into reports of hospitals dumping homeless patients on the streets.
The results of that investigation exploded yesterday with the federal raids of three hospitals and the arrest of a hospital CEO in Los Angeles for alle
All the key swindlers in the homeless patient dumping scheme that sucked hundreds of thousands of dollars from Medicare and Medi-Cal programs in fradulent claims last year have been indicted -- except, that is, for the bad boys in Tustin who were also allegedly involved in the scheme. Last August a several months-long federal investigation culminated with the raids of three hospitals and the arrest of a hospital CEO in
Los Angeles for alleged involvement a scheme that recruited homeless "patient
