NewsForce(@Newsforce):🇺🇸 A Kansas tech CEO has been sentenced to 19 years in federal prison for running a Medicare fraud scheme that generated $1 billion+ in fake medical bills. Brett Blackman's company used bogus prescriptions to bill Medicare for unnecessary medical braces, targeting 346,000+ beneficiaries. Doctors were paid to sign orders for patients they had never examined, while Medicare and other insurers paid out $450 million+.

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2026.10.20 03:45

🇺🇸 A Kansas tech CEO has been sentenced to 19 years in federal prison for running a Medicare fraud scheme that generated $1 billion+ in fake medical bills. Brett Blackman's company used bogus prescriptions to bill Medicare for unnecessary medical braces, targeting 346,000+ beneficiaries. Doctors were paid to sign orders for patients they had never examined, while Medicare and other insurers paid out $450 million+.