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...shed pearls of water. Except for the tile mosaic of a skull that lies in their midst, the cluster of plants looks like just another pretty California backyard garden. In fact, the attractive foliage masks the sinister nature of the display. Located in a walled courtyard outside the pediatrics clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, Calif., the garden consists of 20 plants, all of them popular -and poisonous...
...Illinois, where the subcommittee staff estimates that one dollar out of every six spent by the Public Aid Department on health care is illegally siphoned off. Working with investigators from Chicago's Better Government Association, a citizens' watchdog agency, the subcommittee last December set up a clinic near ghetto areas on the city's North Side. To all appearances, the operation was indistinguishable from other "Medicaid mills" that have been hastily assembled to provide treatment for Chicago's poor and to collect payments from the federal and state governments. Posing as a doctor's representative...
...Mirror. When each lab representative showed up at the clinic to make his pitch, the conversation was jotted down by a secretary; some of the sessions were photographed through a one-way mirror. The material was turned over to the U.S. Justice Department for possible prosecution. Later investigation disclosed other kinds of fraud besides bribery. Some labs were in the habit of offering two sets of prices for tests, one for private patients and a higher one for Medicaid recipients. An examination of 20,000 laboratory billings showed that the median overcharge for Medicaid patients...
...rich-quick schemes could not have succeeded without the cooperation of venal clinic owners, many of them nonphysicians. The favorite ploy was to disguise the kickbacks as rent; that is, the clinic owners would sublease their office space to the labs-which often did not use it. The more patients the doctor sent to the labs, the more rent he would collect. One lab representative told a disguised investigator: "If the volume goes up ten times, rent could go up ten times." A clinic could collect $1,000 a month by renting a cubbyhole containing only a chair. TIME Correspondent...
Both Restic and Kush graced the Statler Hilton Hotel Friday night along with other football luminaries to attend the Kellogg Clinic...