Health-Care Fraud Sweep Nets 110

The Wall Street Journal reports:

A health-care crime sweep Thursday morning netted more than 110 defendants on charges related to Medicare fraud, the most suspects ever charged in such an operation, according to law-enforcement officials.

The defendants—charged in nine metropolitan areas including Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Chicago and Miami—were allegedly involved in more than 40 schemes, almost all of which were unrelated to one another, officials said. Altogether, the schemes attempted to defraud the government of more than $225 million, according to law-enforcement officials.

Great moments of socialized medicine.