Government arrests 243 in largest crackdown on health care fraud

In the single largest crackdown in an eight-year campaign against health care fraud, the Justice Department charged 243 people late last week with $712 million in false billings to Medicare, the medical insurance program for the elderly, and Medicaid, which serves the poor.

The Washington Post reports the alleged fraud spanned the country from Miami, where 73 are accused, to Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, Detroit and beyond.

A large number allegedly targeted Medicare's precription drug benefit progam.

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