BY: Chandler Gill June 10, 2016 10:08 am
http://freebeacon.com/issues/insurance-defrauding-military/The Defense Criminal Investigative Services has launched an investigation into an insurance scam where clinics offered people in the U.S. military a $50 Walmart gift card for samples of their urine and DNA.
CBS’s Jim Axelrod and Emily Rand reported how this investigation unfolded.
A heap of trash dumped into a shed at a clinic near Fort Hood contained soldiers’ social security numbers, medical information, DNA specimens, and more than 60 photocopies of military IDs.
As CBS News showed you last night, makeshift clinics offered soldiers $50 Walmart gift cards in exchange for their urine and DNA.
The urine and DNA samples were sent to Cockerell Dermatopathology located in Dallas, Texas. These samples were then drug tested for things that were largely unnecessary and was billed to Tricare, the military’s insurance company, for millions of dollars.
Not only is this not the first time Tricare has been subject to scamming, but now the company is out $1.3 billion.
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