Nurse ringleader in allergy testing scam gets 9-year sentence

This is terribly sad, also frightening and puzzling. What were the reasons they did this, besides greed, I guess?

no words except, wow.

Back in the early '90s the State of Illinois agreed to pay several fines for Medicare/Medicaid fraud. Each fine exceeed $100 million dollars, I think at least one was $300 million. Nobody went to jail.

An interesting sidenote: Some years back I wanted a Lucent (HP) electronic stethoscope as a new student nurse since my hearing is not great. I searched on Ebay and found several including one new (unused) one. The seller had zero feedback, so I wrote to the fellow asking for an address and some proof that he was "real." His note came back, a bit snappily saying: "I am a well known board certified Cardiologist who has many published works." I thought "ok, that's good...I researched his address, a well-to-do section of Florida, and looked for him on the appropriate board of cardiologists and found many written works, and it was true that he was affiliated and certified. But I was also surprised to find may google "hits" all from the state of NY telling how this Dr. was accused and found guilty of diluting and administering innoculations. His license had been revoked, his practice shut down, thus the spare equipment that he was selling. I read nothing about jail time...and the stethoscope was new and quite wonderful to work with.

Hard to believe that a Doctor with such a business would dilute immunizations to gain perhaps $6-$10/innoculation. At least his license was revoked.

This is very sad indeed, i'm speechless.