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Judge takes notice in Medicare scandal.
Byline: John Dorschner
May 10--In four months last year, 21,000 seniors in Miami-Dade suddenly needed artificial legs or arms.
Medicare paid the bill: $122 million.
When federal prosecutors heard from seniors that they didn't need and hadn't received new limbs, they investigated and filed a civil suit against the 48 small businesses and the billing agency that had submitted the claims.
Medicare fraud cases are nothing new in South Florida, but in this case something unusual happened. A judge looked at the case and asked a question: Why had the government paid out so much for 21,000 sudden amputees in one location? "Common sense dictates this is an impossibility," U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga wrote.
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