Phantom Pharmacy Scams Exploding

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Updated February 7, 2026

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PHANTOM BILLING, FAKE PRESCRIPTIONS, AND THE HIGH COST OF MEDICINE

Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It:

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/62116/9780801460807.pdf

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Federal officials are watching as "a new fraud is spreading through the health care system. Criminal enterprises posing as pharmacies are billing Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers for fake prescriptions and bilking health care out of millions of dollars," reports this CNN Money article, Phantom pharmacy - A growing health care fraud.

You're probably reading this because you have an interest in CA or FL. The article also says, "scammers typically target Florida and California because they have large Medicare and Medicaid populations."

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Hiring Felons As Senior Care Providers

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Updated August 1, 2026

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Loophole lets convicted criminals serve as home health aides in Kansas:
https://fox4kc.com/news/loophole-lets-convicted-criminals-serve-as-home-health-aides-in-kansas/

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According to KGO-TV's Michael Finney, "An alarming number of senior care providers in people's homes have felony convictions."

His news report is important for the following highlights:

• Background checks conducted by the state under a new law passed last year have found nearly 1,000 convicted felons working or seeking jobs as caretakers for seniors and disabled in California.
• Anybody can go out and call themselves a home care worker, put an ad in the paper, and they're not required to have a criminal background check, 
• In 2008, the Legislature passed a law that provides at least some protection, but little is done to enforce it.  

Source:
Felony rates for home care providers alarming

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Medicare Fraud - Mafia - Violence

This Associated Press release, Mafia, violent criminals turn to Medicare fraud, reports: "Lured by easier money and shorter prison sentences, Mafia figures and other violent criminals are increasingly moving into Medicare fraud and spilling blood over what was once a white-collar crime."

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• Florida Certified Designated Representative - CDR Laws and Rules Examination Prep Course

For HMDR Exemptee license applicants  -  Training programs, courses, classes, seminars:

     California (earn a training completion certificate):

• CA Home Medical Device Retailer (HMDR) Exemptee Training Course
• The Exemptee Institute