A rehab facility in Florida allegedly performed $58 million in false tests and treatments on opioid addicts it lured with strip club visits, the AP reports.
Meanwhile, authorities say a doctor in Houston sold opioid prescriptions for cash, according to NBC News. And six doctors in Michigan conspired to prescribe unneeded opioids.
All were part of the more than 400 people charged this week by the Justice Department in connection with medical fraud and the opioid epidemic. Politico reports that, all told, 412 people—56 of them physicians—were charged with defrauding the government of $1.3 billion via illegal billing of Medicare and Medicaid.
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