Doctor tricksters – fraud in the clinic | France 2 | Envoyé Spécial

Every day hundreds of clinics and hospitals get reimbursed by Social Security for phantom services.Bloated fees, fictitious acts, fraud on a grand scale, Pascal Catuogno investigated the methods of these swindling doctors, their tricks for cheating Health Insurance. A well-polished system, organized looting, sometimes with total impunity.Social Security decided to clean things up a year ago by creating a national department for combating fraud.Clinics and hospitals are the latest targets for these investigators. Social Security estimates that one establishment in four is guilty of massive overcharging.More than three hundred establishments are in their sights.The balance sheet for one year of inquiry: the investigators have uncovered 120 million euros embezzled from Social Security accounts. Enough to build a 400-bed hospital. Compared with the annual expenditure of 110 billion, it’s a drop in the ocean.