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DOCTORS RECRUITING DRUG ADDICTS FOR MEDICAL BILLING

An undercover camera investigation exposed doctors treating car loads of drug addicts and other indigents who get rounded up by patient recruiters. Each patient gets paid $20 cash each for allowing the doctor to examine or treat them! The recruiter, who has no medical skills or certification, has even been caught doing medical work on the patients in the doctors offices, like taking X-rays!

The doctor, of course, turns around and bills some U.S. government health program for services rendered no matter if treatment was needed or not!

Drug addicts testify that these fraudulent doctors and their patient recruiters actively seek them out week after week picking them up and taking them in to see the doctor. The addicts see it as easy money for the addict to help them buy more illegal drugs.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: FOX TV NEWS 8/12/01

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