Wheelchair scheme takes in $2.3 million
Saturday, December 17, 2005
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two doctors and several Kansas City businessmen have been charged with participating in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme to bill Medicare for expensive motorized wheelchairs for patients who didn't need them or didn't receive them, federal authorities said Friday.
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