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Medicare: The $60 Billion Fraud

Name: Medicare: The $60 Billion Fraud
Uploaded: 2010-09-05T20:00:00-0400
Duration: 14 min 39 s
Description: Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters are beating U.S. taxpayers out of an estimated $90 billion a year - $60 billion of it from Medicare - using a billing scam that is surprisingly easy to execute. Steve Kroft investigates Medicare.

Medicare and Medicaid fraudsters are beating U.S. taxpayers out of an estimated $90 billion a year - $60 billion of it from Medicare - using a billing scam that is surprisingly easy to execute. Steve Kroft investigates Medicare.