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Medicare Scammers Steal $60 Billion a Year. This Man Is Hunting Them

JOHN MININNO SLAPS two pieces of paper onto an overhead projector. “Look at this,” he says. “You see how one form is a photocopy of the other—with just the date changed? It’s exactly the same paper!” The printouts are mere insurance forms, but Mininno is genuinely pissed off about them. “They’re allowed to bill for that procedure again six months after they first provide it. That date is six months to the day!”

Not everyone can get this worked up about insurance forms. But to Mininno, these are a combination of smoking gun and a slap in the face. Together they clearly show that someone is ripping off Medicare. But perhaps what’s worse is that someone is being really lazy about it.