Feds take down $1 billion health care scheme in ‘Operation Brace Yourself’

Two dozen people, including doctors and owners of medical equipment companies, were charged in a more than $1 billion global health care fraud scheme, authorities said Tuesday.
Investigators uncovered a sprawling plot that targeted elderly and disabled people by setting them up with back, neck and knee braces that they didn’t need, according to federal prosecutors.HHS Office of Inspector General agents take part in arrests on April 9, 2019, in Queens, New York as they break up a billion-do