CNSNews.com - Medicaid Fraud More than $63 Million in 5 States Alone, GAO Report Finds

CNSNews.com - Medicaid Fraud More than $63 Million in 5 States Alone, GAO Report Finds: "(CNSNews.com) – A California man took on the name of a dead person to receive taxpayer-funded health care for more than three years, charging $200,000 to the Medicaid system, including $2,870 to buy controlled substances under an assumed identity.

A Houston-area physician’s assistant kept on signing the name of the doctor who once employed her after that doctor had died. The prescriptions, many of which were also covered by Medicaid, were also for prescription pain killers.

More than 1,800 prescriptions were filled for people who are dead and another 1,200 prescriptions were written with the signatures of deceased doctors, according to an investigation of five states by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). And those were only two of the startling findings in a report that discovered $63.2 million in waste in five states alone."