Fraud Report-Criminals in the U.S. Healthcare System
Fraud Report U.S. Healthcare-Corporate Greed and Justice Intervention Americans have been conditioned to view healthcare fraud as a crime perpetrated by Medicaid cheats, but the curtain is being pulled on corporate fraud, which costs healthcare consumers so much more than welfare opportunists. This week, criminal trials begin for executives at two different companies, Allergan�s Warner Chilcott unit, a pharmaceutical company and Johnson and Johnson, a medical device manufacturer, at the federal court in Boston. [1] The justice department decided the billions in corporate fines were not sufficiently deterring corporate misconduct in healthcare and has started to pursue criminal charges for white collar criminals who here-to-for thought they could pay a fine and walk. The individuals in the chart below have been indicted by a federal grand jury and will stand trial: Corporate Fraud Pharmaceutical Industry Allergan subsidiary Warner Chilcott has already plead guilty to healt...