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9 New York Doctors Arrested For Using Homeless People To Defraud Millions From Medicaid
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Mr. Rorie was recruiting homeless people, prosecutors said, and whoever had a valid Medicaid card would be packed into a van and sent to medical clinics around New York City. There, after hours of unnecessary tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless people would be sent off with sneakers - selected from stacks of shoeboxes in the clinics’ basements. The doctors, staff members and billing specialists, meanwhile, would rack up hundreds or thousands of dollars per recruit in false Medicaid claims, prosecutors said.
From a warehouse in Sunset Park, Eric Vainer, 43, oversaw the operation with the help of his mother, Polina, 66, prosecutors said. “We can use the same patients like guinea pigs for anything we want,” Mr. Vainer was recorded saying in a government wiretap.
- From the New York Times article: 9 New York Doctors Are Accused of Defrauding Medicaid Using Homeless People
In America’s fraudulent oligarch economy in which corruption and theft have become the preferred means to earn money, it’s no surprise doctors feel a need to participate. Do no harm indeed.
From the New York Times:
“Free sneakers, shoes and boots today,” Bernard Rorie shouted, standing outside a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn, where he was being recorded by investigators
Mr. Rorie was recruiting homeless people, prosecutors said, and whoever had a valid Medicaid card would be packed into a van and sent to medical clinics around New York City. There, after hours of unnecessary tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless people would be sent off with sneakers — selected from stacks of shoeboxes in the clinics’ basements. The doctors, staff members and billing specialists, meanwhile, would rack up hundreds or thousands of dollars per recruit in false Medicaid claims, prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, nine New York doctors were among 23 people indicted in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in connection with the sneaker scheme, which the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said made almost $7 million and took advantage of thousands of homeless people.
From a warehouse in Sunset Park, Eric Vainer, 43, oversaw the operation with the help of his mother, Polina, 66, prosecutors said. “We can use the same patients like guinea pigs for anything we want,” Mr. Vainer was recorded saying in a government wiretap.
Typically, once patients arrived at a clinic, they would be seen by a podiatrist, the indictment says. The podiatrist would give a “fictitious diagnosis,” order more tests or specify equipment like orthotics or leg braces that the patient actually did not need. The podiatrist often referred the patient to additional doctors who were part of the scheme, including psychiatrists and pain-management specialists, who might sign the patient up for recurring visits that they could bill. Cardiologists and vein specialists, meanwhile, might bill as if they were reviewing their unnecessary tests without actually doing any reviewing, or claim to Medicaid they had done procedures that they never had.
After all of that, the patient would get to pick a pair of shoes, boots or sandals from a storeroom that, in at least one clinic, Mr. Thompson described as “like a shoe store.”
The doctors in the group made money by, for instance, seeing a patient for four minutes and billing for 30 minutes, or claiming they had reviewed tests when they had not, or simply billing for procedures they had never done, prosecutors said. Some doctors paid Mr. Vainer a referral fee for each recruit, while some split the Medicaid payment with him.
Mr. Vainer made money from the scheme in several ways: He owns medical clinics where the patients were sent; he supplies devices for foot and leg problems; and he had financial arrangements with doctors to whom he sent the recruited homeless patients, prosecutors said.
Mr. Vainer also made money by supplying cheap equipment and billing it to Medicaid as a custom medical device — for instance, supplying a drugstore shoe insert and billing it to Medicaid as a custom orthotic, for which he received about $330.
Some of the doctors involved are affiliated with well-known institutions. Dr. Joseph Grossman, 82, a cardiologist, was a clinical assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. The vein surgeon Dr. David Glass, 65, a former assistant chief of surgery at New York Methodist, is an assistant clinical professor at Cornell, according to his website. Dr. Grossman and Dr. Glass pleaded not guilty.
They should’ve been bankers if they wanted to get away with it.
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grossman and glass. surprise, surprise.
Talmudic, Inc.
Pffft! This is just the tip of the iceberg of all the fraud that will be orchestrated against the Swiss-cheese ObamaCare fiasco-system in the coming years.
Friends of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
And most docs trying to keep the doors open and staff paid honestly continue to struggle.
And where are those kind located? Las Vegas? LOL
i'm not sure i really understand your comment, but those doctors do struggle; "most" of how small a number?
Exactly - thats why many of the young tribe members have gone from medicine to internet start ups
medicaid and medicare fraud, biggest and baddest are the Cubans in Miami!
and you are an angel
"Ping ponging" is against the law? Is it as bad as former Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes and his star detectives framing innocent people for murder and shipping them upstate for decades in prison? Obviously not, Hynes hasn't been indicted yet, AFAIK. That Hynes' policy of clearing murder cases also let the real killers go is another matter as well. Protecting connected killers, par for Hynes. Business as usual for the corrupt DAs in New York City, who charged hundreds of thousands of people with criminal possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, even though the Marijuana Reform Act of 1977 made such possession a violation (like a traffic ticket), not a crime. New York newspapers are doing their bit, covering up this fact to protect Bloomberg and former PC Ray Kelly.
Dat racis!
All of which voted for Obongo and his corrupt health care bill.
I was assured that it would all be Free.
Working as intended.
Must be a dull day at ZH, Medicaid fraud is not new news.
Yeah, but every Libtard I know loves to tout Medicaid as a wonderful example of government run healthcare delivery.
And ObamaCare supporters are stuffing them in there as fast as they can. Target rich as it were, on the way to a "universally" destroyed landscape.
I wish you all the best on this Easter. The fraud has been exposed. But much needs to be done.
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
The story continues.
Fuck all of you then. I'm a libertarian, not a liberal, conservative, Republican or Democrat. Jesus!!
The Medicaid program is a giant fucking total gov't waste.
All I'm saying is this particular case(s) is nothing new. Fraud is rampant in the system. It has been since the gitgo. The program should be abolished. Period.
Is that clear enough for you fucking morons?
I'm with ya brother....and on most any Gov't entitlement.
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“Free sneakers, shoes and boots today,” Bernard Rorie shouted, standing outside a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn, where he was being recorded by investigators
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On Tuesday, nine New York doctors were among 23 people indicted in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in connection with the sneaker scheme, which the Brooklyn district attorney’s office said made almost $7 million and took advantage of thousands of homeless people. "
The doctors didn't take advantage of these people. The doctors and the homeless people BOTH took advantage of the taxpayers.
The homeless people received shoes that they probably needed, so they were better off for having collaborated in the scam. I suspect that many of the homeless people full well knew that they were involved in a scam.
We are going to see a lot more of this kind of fraud as the ACA gains patients. It is expected that some high number of new entrants into the medical billing system are going to have a wide variety of latent undiagnosed and untreated problems. The medical complex is going to do everything it can to discover every one of these probem$ and inititate treatment$ of every kind -at full retail price$ of course... Figuring out which caseloads are factually legitimate patients with many problems accessing the system as opposed to phony billings and overbillings is going to be a challenge to the administrators of the benefits program.
I don't see very robust policing being pursued.
Those who forced through the program and those tasked with implementing the program tout high rates of access as success based on those very billings. They certainly do not want to publicize the fact that a certain portion of all program billing is and always will be inherently fraudulent.
Factually, logically: the higher ACA billings indicate equal amounts of both 'success' of the program in expanding access and increased incidences of fraud based on that 'successful' expantion of access...
Medicaid Mills in NY? Your kidding me! This sort of thing has been going on for decades.
Paging Dr's Corzine, Dimon, Blankfuck, Thain
We got ZIRP'ed. If you want your MD., you can keep your MD..
Better Call Saul.
We ZIRPed some folks
Good onya Big Jim.
Reduce the fuckers to the working class poor like the rest of us. The big difference is that the working class poor have some fucking ethics left which is something you can't say about the elite and political class.
Ethics are mind control.
If you visit the Canadian Medical Association website you will find a whole section devoted to Wealth Management on the home page. No mention of 'patients' can be found on the whole site. Moreover, a past president of the American Psychological Association is implicated in the George Bush CIA Torture regime along with the CIA Psychologists that were the principle engineers of the reverse-engineered SRE Torture Programme. Lastly, another past president of the American Psychological Association netted a $31 Million petrodollar contract to train current US ARMY personnel on how to maintain happyness in combat/war. Clearly, all MDs across the USA now view US ARMY vets and personnel as subjects (Ss) to be experimented with for the purposes of personal profit motive.
Stupid fucking doctors. Everybody knows stealing thousands or millions (without contributing to the proper politicians) is for kids and morons. It's when you steal billions that you're untouchable.
lmfao! Great comment
Trickle down fraud; begins at the top, trickles down to upper management, then mid and lower managment and on down until even the janitor is stealing staplers, Mont Blanc pens, etc from people's desks. I heard a professor form Princeton say as much in a lecture he gave at my local univeristy a few years ago. He said unless the DOJ and state AGs prosecute the Wall Street robbers, this would happen.
And he was correct.
It's evolving into a whole new Merikan culture started by Wall Street and politicans and working its way thru our society.
Stay short $usd.
Jon Corizine
Kick rocks, suckaz.
"Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
shoe rhymes with moooooooo
could i get a cow instead....
The sheeple trust politicians. The sheeple trust judges. The sheeple trust doctors. Next, the sheeple trust the prosecutors. Trust is their vice.
Goddam homeless people. Don't blame the talmudic jewish doctors -they're doing nothing more than the talmud compels them -ripping off stupid goyim. Wall Street does the same thing every day -at levels 1000 times worse - and we all know this is acceptable - American goys don't mind. It's the American way. I want those shoes back. So what if homeless people are shoeless people. Someone has to pay for this outrageous fraud upon the American taxpayer. Going to jail will not only take these eyesores off our streets, but will also allow them to be rehabilitated by working in one of our private for profit prisons making a buck an hour, but getting free room and board courtesy of the taxpayers. That's a hell of a deal.
Yeah but if you say you want to punish a Jew for their crimes you are a racist nazi guilty of war crimes.
Jews were turned into desk lamps and had gold teeth put in by German dentists before WWII so they could be ripped out later at concentration camps. 50 million Jews were killed don't you know. Doesn't matter that the number is greater than the total Jewish population at the time. Just like Wall Street math, the media, and politics, whatever the Jew says is true.
This typifies the J-mafia scam game. AIAPC contributes some 23 million a year to both parties but gets maybe 8 billion in goodies for Israel a year from cash, military hardware, subsidized oil and loan guarantees etc. I am sure some of that money comes back to AIAPC accounts to grease the wheels for even more bounty. Same here, the goy gets a shoe and the rest of the goys pay billions.
The list of defendents looks predominately J-Mafia. Not quite a monopoly but damn close.
DEFENDANT ADDENDUM:
Eric Vanier, 43, of 220 Riverside Boulevard, New York, New York.
Polina Vainer, 66, of 189 Keating Place, Staten Island, New York.
Igor Marmulevskiy, 30, of 88 East End Avenue, New York, New York.
Melissa Gonzalez, 31, of 210 Roebling Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Shawn Mayo, 38, of 192 Sand Street, Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn.
Kirill Shakhov, 26, of 1522 West Fourth Street, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Marina Vargas, 49, of 3620 Coney Island Avenue, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
Dr. Henry Sardar, DO (pain management) 39, of 2376 East 4th Street, Gravesend, Brooklyn.
Susan Nutakor-Doh, 48, of 7502 Austin Street, Forest Hills, Queens.
Taesoo Kim, 28, of 32-02 37th Avenue, Long Island City, New York.
Hoda Abdelaziz, 48, of 6006 168th Street, Fresh Meadows, Queens,
Dr. David Glass, MD (vascular medicine) 65, of 333 Rector Place, New York, New York.
Yelena Korsunskaya, 60, of 7902 19th Avenue, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Dr. Benny Ogorek, DPM (podiatrist), 64, of 67-15 102nd Street, Forest Hills, Queens.
Dr. Avia Jackson, DPM (podiatrist) 43, of 146-18 Liberty Avenue, Jamaica, New York.
Isaacs, DPM (podiatrist) 63, of 141-19 71st Road, Flushing, Queens.
Dr. Neeman Ghuman, DPM (podiatrist) 40, of 78 70th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Dr. Herbert Meadow, MD (psychiatrist) 79, of 1025 5th Avenue, New York, New York.
Matthew Jordan, 33, of 365 Oscawana Lake Road, Putnam Valley, New York.
Renee Denobrega, 32, of 188 Dorchester Drive, Bushkill, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Joseph Grossman, MD (cardiologist) 82, 6 Elizabeth Court, Briarcliff Manor, New York.
Dr. Abdul Q. Malik, MD, (cardiologist) 56, 1 Villadom Court, Dix Hills, New York.
Bernard Rorie, 59, of 211 Malcolm X Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York.
Every time I look at a lamp shade-or a bar of soap - I weep for the jews. Thank God the world has paid trillions to the billion or so holocaust survivors who were liberated from Auschwitz. And I ask -can we do more? We're all at fault. Yes, we have given hundreds of billions to jewish Wall Street in the last 6 years-but that's not enough. I can no longer bear the shame and guilt for what we did to them. When the hell is Mr. Yellen going to announce QE4 ? I'm losing patience.
Every hospital bill has thousands of dollars of fraudulent charges. If you are in a room, everything in the room is charged to your bill even if you didn't use it.
When my son was born we were charged for the water delivery equipment that happened to be in the room they put us in even though we never asked for a water delivery. Then they charged the recovery room to two patients. Total bill for a natural delivery with no complications, $32,000. Yeah fucking right there was $32k worth of service.
$250 per pill Tylenol, every patient billed for a hepa air filter whether it is changed or not, etc etc etc.
Fraud is the first rule of healthcare. Billions upon billions of stolen money because of health insurance.
Your bill was about average for about 5 years ago - today it would be around $40,000:
From 2004 to 2010, the prices that insurers paid for childbirth — one of the most universal medical encounters — rose 49 percent for vaginal births and 41 percent for Caesarean sections in the United States, with average out-of-pocket costs rising fourfold, according to a recent report by Truven that was commissioned by three health care groups. The average total price charged for pregnancy and newborn care was about $30,000 for a vaginal delivery and $50,000 for a C-section,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/health/american-way-of-birth-costliest...
You almost sound bitter.
Exactly. Everyone wants to call a spade a spade, and then the medical professional proclaims that all of the unnecessary tests and shaky diagnoses are to practice "defensive medicine" for fear of being sued. If there is any possible way a test could be for a diagnosis associated with the symptoms of a patient, then the unnecessary test will not be prosecuted as fraud... and the medical professionals sleep soundly at night. Hell, they may even declare that it is "hospital policy" or the like. When you come in for chest pains, we have to run tests A, B, C, and D.... And, if those tests uncover anything wrong with you, then we'll have to fix that too! (even though your chest pains were from indigestion or anxiety).
> (even though your chest pains were from indigestion or anxiety).
You'd be (pleasantly) surprised just how many Patients arriving in Emergency, with characteristic "Cardiac" chest pain, are discharged home with a bottle of Gaviscon (or similar), after a "completely normal" 12 lead ECG !! :-)
Particularly evident after major Bank Holidays (Christmas, Easter), when the population might have "overdone it" with the gastronomic festivities . . . . .
Go to Tiajuana for births.
You get a stool, a basin and a nurse pokes her head in every 15 minutes to remind you to breathe.
$150.
You won't need a toothbrush either.
pardon but where is Tiajuana ?
GOOGLE >do you mean Tijuana ?
ok we all know this is the fucken tip of on iceberg
but this fucken iceberg want melt fucken down
Oh please, is this really that much different than what the government does? Buy shit for people who don't need it and hand someone else the bill. It's just happening outside of the government so "it's a problem".
If all your friends jumped off a bridge then would you too?
Argumentum ad Populum.
Happy Easter.
You mean you can't trust members of an organization that all serve an association with snakes in the logo? Snakes, trusted since the beginning of time.
Using homeless as guinea pigs, eh. Would Dr. Mengele be proud of those that continue his work and contributions to the holocaust and also make nice big profit on it too?
Sounds like Barry Care has got traction, finally
Good universities make perfect disciples: the only thing that matter is money. And there is plenty of records showing "them" making experiments on homeless people.
The weather in London castle is great. Louis the 17th is getting ready to cross the channel.
Doctors are not really that smart with fraud as they get caught, so CMS looks to be going after the big fraud folks, insurers, who over 5 years bilked them for over 70 Billion and now Medicare is going to rerun their risk assessments on those insurers they over paid.
These doctors are chump change compared to how Heatlh Insurers cheat. Two of them have already said they will need some money in reserves with anticipating a money grab from CMS on this and there are law suits filed by whistle blowers to boot.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/03/cms-to-rerun-medicare-advantage-risk.html
Upon whom would zero hedge's Jew-hating posters blame the world's, the United States' and their own problems, if their dreams came true and the world became a Juden-frei zone?
The world would be a FAR better place without the Satanic Tribe!
Juden frei would be over kill, but how about some criminal indictments handed down on occasion. The only reason these charges were levied at all is because there is some infighting going on in NYC between more decent secular Jews (see Jewish Forward and Failed Messiah.com) against the extremist Sabbatian-Satanic Orthodox Jew Mafia. But law enforcement taking action because of Jewish infighting is hardly justice in America.
Do I see a large number of Jew names involved..................as usual?!?
Thin line between capitalism and fraud. Not like the government would lie to us in the same way, give us some free shit in order to pass the ACA agenda. Seriously, whats the fucking difference?
Incoherent much? WTF does this have to do with capitalism?
Well, these folks certainly have miners beat; why go to all the trouble constructing and working a mine when all you have to do is fill out a form and the government sends you money - is this not a great country or what....
But, but, but... I thought that Medicaid's reimbursement scheme was so poor that no one would bother seeing patients any more... all the doctors were quitting and lines would form around the door at the 3 clinics that still saw Medicaid patients.
You don't want to know what these podiatrists charge Medicare to cut someone's toe nails. And that is what I can't understand. Medicare fraud pays so much better. You mean they couldn't find some alzheimer's patients on which to run their little "lower extremity circulatory complications" scam. Oh wait... I'm sure that little ring exists as well.
How many people know that the Feds/HHS can just go into a doctor's bank account and take whatever money is in there and say you overbilled us? No trial, no due process, just you stole from us and we are taking it back. How many times can a doctor do a procedure and an insurer or the government not pay/steal claiming the procedure is not medicaly necessary? Why does Viagra cost nearly $30 a pill in the United States and $1 in India?
Stealing is the name of the game in health care, and it will continue to be as long as the government does all it can to keep costs opaque. The insurers and government steal from doctors and the doctors do likewise.
The whole thing can be fixed overnight by handling the matter like car insurance. You pay for the day to day expenses and the consumer understands costs like every other good purchased. When calamity hits then and only then does insurance kick in. If there is someone truly chronically ill and cannot pay their bills, and this should be a very small share of the population, then and only then you put them into a government program that pays all their bills.
This crap is going to continue to happen as long as people are under the delusion that health care is "free".
Goldman and Glass... they sound like bankers