Here's a quote from a Nov 2007 NPR article:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16045685

If you want to know how bad Medicare fraud is in Miami, a good place to start is with a study released by federal inspectors. They visited, at random, nearly 1,600 businesses in Miami that bill Medicare for services allegedly delivered to beneficiaries.

The U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, says the inspectors found that nearly one-third of the businesses — 481 — didn't exist.

"Those 481 businesses — so-called businesses that didn't exist — had billed $237 million in fraud over the past year," Acosta says.



>>I think I read somewhere that 20% (or more) of all Medicare fraud comes out of South Florida.
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>Don't you think that's because 75% of all the old people live there? <bg>
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>Tamar