CBS News(@CBSNews):The founder and owner of a health care software company was convicted for his role in a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme that generated false doctors' orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare and other federal programs. According to court documents, Brett Blackman and his co-conspirators targeted hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries to get them to accept medically unnecessary orthotic braces and prescriptions for other items. As CBS News' @adamyamaguchi reports, it's the latest example of a scheme involving stolen taxpayer dollars.

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The founder and owner of a health care software company was convicted for his role in a $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme that generated false doctors' orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare and other federal programs. According to court documents, Brett Blackman and his co-conspirators targeted hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries to get them to accept medically unnecessary orthotic braces and prescriptions for other items. As CBS News' @adamyamaguchi reports, it's the latest example of a scheme involving stolen taxpayer dollars.