Federal agents arrested 14 people after they planned to scam public schools and several companies out of more than $130 million in health insurance payments for bogus claims, the Miami Herald reports. The suspects operated a network of about 35 crooked clinics that received $15 million in payments for fraudulent claims for pain injections between 2012 and 2015. According to the Herald, the City of Miami, Miami-Dade County public schools, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare were among the entities targeted by the scam.
$15M Fraud Bust by Feds in Miami-Dade
![Leon County Judge John Cooper on June 30, 2022, in a screen grab from The Florida Channel.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1c0ec71/2147483647/strip/true/crop/259x194+0+0/resize/880x659!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fhealthnewsfl%2Ffiles%2F201407%2Fgavel.jpg)
Wikimedia Commons
/
The Florida Channel