GR124-WHEN THE SYSTEM FAILS THE PEOPLE Behind Bars with Emergency Physician Dr David Young Lara Logan - Going Rogue With Lara Logan

Lara Logan sits down with former emergency physician Dr. David Young to pull back the curtain on a sprawling Medicare fraud scheme that thrived behind the rise of online medical staffing. Young explains how he was hired to perform chart reviews for orthotic braces and genetic tests, never meeting patients and never handling billing, yet his approvals fed a system that billed Medicare for millions of unnecessary services. He describes the mechanics of the fraud – staffing companies triaging patients, doctors signing off on charts for a few dollars each, and charges being duplicated or inflated without the clinicians’ knowledge.The conversation turns to sentencing, where Young recounts receiving a ten‑year prison term and $36 million in restitution because judges calculate punishment based on the total fraud amount, not the individual doctor’s earnings. He compares his case to a nurse practitioner who earned $1.4 million but was held responsible for $142 million in fraud, illustrating how the government’s approach can crush lives.Logan challenges the lack of governmental action, pointing to other telemedicine abuses in erectile‑dysfunction prescriptions and the slow response to whistleblowers. Young shares his ER experience, contrasting life‑or‑death decisions on the bedside with the seemingly trivial choices of approving a knee brace or a genetic test online.Both host and guest call for urgent reform: stricter oversight of telemedicine staffing firms, transparent billing practices, and accountability for agencies that allow fraud to proliferate. The episode ends with a plea for listeners to spread the story, support victims, and demand that the system protecting American taxpayers finally work.This hard‑hitting interview exposes how digitizing health care can amplify fraud, why sentencing can feel like a life sentence, and what must change to protect patients and taxpayers alike.

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