Fake Brain Surgery Arrests

Yahoo News - AP ^ | June 2, 2007 | AP

[Natural Law]

4 charged in false brain surgery claims Sat Jun 2, 2:35 PM ET

NEW YORK - Four people billed a health insurance company for 20 brain operations that were never performed on them, sometimes for the same person on multiple occasions, authorities said....

[Natural Law]

Does anyone know, or can anyone guess why the names of the suspects in custody and still at large have been omitted from the story?

[Loyalist]

Because they might just be the people running health insurance scams that Americans won’t run.

[Admin Moderator]

Stanley Canella, Charles Pritchett, Dorothy L. Smith, Michael Biscotti

[Loyalist]

So much for that theory.

[TomServo]

Well, you ruined it for the hystericals around here..

Way to go...

[Natural Law]

"So much for that theory."

What theory? I asked a legitimate question that hasn't yet been answered.

[ThomasThomas]

Did I hear someone needs some brain surgery

[TommyDale]

The arrests were fake? Wow!

[wastoute]

LOL. I say that they have been paid to undergo these procedures, they should now have them. Let the Residents (who can never get enough cases) have at them! (Just kidding, save your flames)

[Duke Nukum]

Between HMO’s dictating which treatments people can get, doctors who have been bought up by the drug companies for free vacations, the drug companies themselves who add an antacid to a drug to re-patent it, and people like this, how do you tell the scammers?

Is scammer on scammer scamming a crime? Or does a scam being legal make the legal scammers the good guys?

[Frank_2001]

Looks like here, the “patients” want a piece of the action too/s

[chopperman]

Give them lobotomies.

[em2vn]

Something is out of whack. A payout of only $300 thousand for 20 brain surgeries?

[Duke Nukum]

Something is out of whack. A payout of only $300 thousand for 20 brain surgeries?

I didn't read the whole article, maybe they left out the co-pay?

[Natural Law]

When ever the MSM leaves out critical details (like who dunnit) in a two page story you have to believe it was not a simple oversight. If the perpetrators were not protected by political correctness, you have to believe that there is a democrat connection that somebody doesn’t want disclosed. I suggest we follow the money.

[gcruse]

Reminds me a of a bit from a comedy album by Rowan and Martin several years before they made Laugh-in.

Rowan: I understand you’re a surgeon.
Martin: Yes, I do.
R: I mean, you do surgery?
M: Yes, I am.
R: Well, whatever. Anyway, what kind of surgeon are you?
M: I’m a brain surgeon.
R: What? YOU are a brain surgeon?
M: Cool it, man. I ain’t got no license.
R: What do you do when you aren’t doing surgery?
M: I play trumpet for Jimmy Lunsford in Chicago.
R: That’s not possible. Jimmy Lunsford is dead.
M: Maybe it’s in Detroit...
R: I told you, Jimmy’s dead!
M: There, too?

[John123]

Something is out of whack. A payout of only $300 thousand for 20 brain surgeries?

It was a two for one special...