Kaiser Permanente to pay $556 million in record Medicare Advantage fraud settlement

[erronis]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-kaiser-permanente-pay-million-medicare.html

In the largest Medicare Advantage fraud settlement to date, Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $556 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it billed the government for medical conditions patients didn't have.

The settlement, announced Jan. 14, resolves whistleblower lawsuits that accused the giant health insurer of mounting a years-long scheme in which it overstated how sick patients were to illegally boost revenues.

"Medicare Advantage is a vital program that must serve patients' needs, not corporate profits," said U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian for the Northern District of California, in announcing the settlement.

"Fraud on Medicare costs the public billions annually, so when a health plan knowingly submits false information to obtain higher payments, everyone--from beneficiaries to taxpayers--loses," he said.

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Then there's Rick Scott (Republicon Senator, natch) who broke the law, profited, and is still happily screwing this country.
Rick Scott tries to rewrite history on $1.7 billion Medicare fraud controversy
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article288431251.html

[pfitz59]

1. Medicare Advantage is a giant fraud

the entire program needs to be shit canned

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[underpants]

3. Dayum. That's almost Fox level money

[AZJonnie]

4. I suppose no HUMAN is going to jail for massive fraud, since corporations are sentient entities that commit crimes

all on their own, and the people who are ostensibly running them just carry out the orders the corporation entity decides

[erronis]

5. As it has been. Roberts and his ilk just made it worse.

The only C-suite types that pay the price are the ones that have fallen afoul of the more powerful ones.

The Unspoken Code of the Corporate Mobsters

[AZJonnie]

6. IIRC if you go back to the days of the Founding, these entities were looked up with great suspicion

For most of the Founders saw exactly how their rise could contribute to the downfall of the democratic republic they were creating, and looked askance. For good reason, as we've since seen.