From the NY Post:
A bunch of crooked Queens doctors paid their patients to take ballroom dance lessons in their clinic basement -- and then masqueraded the sessions as legitimate physical therapy in fraudulent Medicare claims, sources told The Post.
The scheming doctors also rewarded patients with massages, facials and free lunches in their Flushing practices for helping them submit a staggering $11.7 million worth of false claims, officials said.
Among those charged were Ho Yon Kim, 85, a physician, and his son, Gilbert Kim, 59, who served as the office manager, as well as a chiropractor and another doctor.
The Kims also administered unnecessary electro-stimulation therapy and physical therapy to patients -- and even billed for completely fabricated services that were never performed, officials said.
The Kims’ alleged schemes were unveiled yesterday after FBI agents teamed with investigators from the Department of Health and Human Services to arrest a dozen people in a sweep of raids across New York, charging them with participating in several unrelated health-care fraud rings, officials said. None of the patients who helped in the scheme have been charged publicly.
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"A bunch of crooked Queens doctors paid their patients to take ballroom dance lessons in their clinic basement -- and then masqueraded the sessions as legitimate physical therapy in fraudulent Medicare claims, sources told The Post."
Admit it: ballroom dancing is
very therapeutic!
"Massagee, massagee, massagee therapy", covered by Medicare!
The Feds need to flush out Flushing now!!!!!!!
Dancing IS exercise. I've been doing ballroom/Latin for over 12 years, 5x/week, in 2 hour sessions. Voulez-vous danser avec moi? BTW downtown Flushing is replete with ballroom venues (5-Star, Universal etc.). The Chinese consider it a form of taichi but with music. Cha-cha-cha.
Asians running scams? NO! I refuse to believe it!
Maybe I just don't get it, but I'm always amazed that someone trains to be a doctor, can have a very lucrative honest career adn then goes off the tracks into illegal activities.
FLUSH OUT FLUSHING! Flush the toilet on all the scammers that steal our tax dollars and call ICE to flush out all the illegals. Flushing was once a very nice neighborhood. It can be again if the powers that be pay attention and restore it to a viable neighborhood instead of the cesspool that it has become. A big problem is the politicians who cuddle up to the Asians and get paid off, i.e. Schulman, Ackerman.
the scam doctors used your tax dollars to pay the golden oldie dancers. the dancers should be punished also.
this money laundering scam continues with the public union employees and the democrat politicians in nyc today.
Doctors are only in it for the money....You can go to 3 different dentists and each one of them will give you different diagnosis/treatment plans.
"this money laundering scam continues with the public union employees and the democrat politicians in nyc today."
The above is either an attempt at free association...or deception.
Neither has anything to do with the facts of the story.
A bunch of Kim Chee crooks!
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