Personal Insurance

MIAMI - Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic.

MIAMI - Federal authorities said Friday they are conducting the largest Medicare fraud bust ever in five different states and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million.
DETROIT - A Florida woman who stole millions of dollars from Medicare while running Detroit-area clinics expanded her scheme by setting up her daughter and son-in-law with their own fraud mill.

WASHINGTON - House Democrats triggered the countdown Monday for the climactic vote on President Barack Obama's fiercely contested remake of the health care system, even though the legislation remained incomplete and lacked the votes needed to pass.
LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles hospital owner was sentenced Monday to more than three years in federal prison for paying kickbacks to recruit patients from among the homeless on Skid Row, authorities said.