Opioid Addicts Victimized In National Insurance Fraud Scheme

Senior Enterprise Reporter at Stat News, a health news site affiliated with The Boston Globe, David Armstrong joins us to discuss his recent investigation: “Desperate for addiction treatment, patients are pawns in lucrative insurance fraud scheme.” The article looks at how patient brokers, who profit off of placing insured people in treatment centers, are using fake addresses to enroll drug users into premium health plans. Once they're enrolled, patients are sent to expensive facilitates hundreds of miles from their homes only to receive poor-quality care.