Workers' Reports Lead to Record Medicare-Fraud Settlement

Seattle Weekly | June 8, 2004
The full story of the University of Washington Medicare-fraud case, settled for a record $35 million, has not been told, says a whistleblower. For starters, clerks were ordered to forge doctor signatures and re-create old records. Fear of firing, meanwhile, kept everyone quiet. Almost.

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