"The bill aimed at cracking down on advertising practices of Sober Homes ultimately was gutted by the [Florida] house.The bill would have done some good things but the legislature seemed to think that this was a Palm Beach County issue as opposed to a statewide issue, which is incorrect. It IS a statewide issue. Ground zero just happens to be in Palm Beach County and in Delray Beach in particular."
~ Dave Aronberg
State Attorney
There is a Task Force Advisory Panel that is still being planned and Aronberg hopes that the power of this board will eventually influence the Florida Legislature.
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I certainly hope he really plans to do something now. From the excellent coverage in today's Post, it sure sounds like he was far from being on target in investigating these scam operators. There is obvious insurance fraud that is making millionaires out of scumbag slumlords. I would certainly think it is more than possible to prosecute this massive insurance fraud by addressing the FRAUD. It's illegal, period. Sober home, ADA, and fair housing laws DO NOT PROTECT FRAUD. All you have to do is ask to see the books for all in Palm Beach County who have a CLIA waiver certificate. If they are billing $1500 for a urine test, you've got them for fraud. They're using a drug store dip stick test, and pocketing $1350 per pee. Speaking as a medical biller--all that is needed is looking at the books (audit) and matching up the Certificate operators with the CPT code used. This is targeting no one but fraudsters.
Looks like the corruption goes deep and the taxpayers pay in many ways including the destruction of community.
Yes, we are paying in so many ways. Insurance costs are going up, Medicare is being defrauded. Families of these addicts are being defrauded. Policing and rescue costs are going up. Neighborhoods are being destroyed both by criminal element, disruptive business, traffic, noise, etc.
If Anon at 3:52 knows what to do, why didn't our officials in Florida??? Follow the money ,people. These people were getting under the table pay offs or campaign contributions! It's a gravy train and people are getting rich.And,oh yeah, dead, there is that,,,,
It would be interesting to hear how many overdoses happened over the weekend because Fire Rescue was on the road numerous times. I know one overdose happened in CJ's on Saturday afternoon. When are they going to be cited for Nuisance Abatement??? Enough is enough.
I think, sadly, it takes a while for the fraud to catch up. The urine testing insurance fraud litigation has just started. Why there is such a lag time is beyond me. You'd think when urine testing went from $50 a week to $50,000 a week the insurance companies would have locked down payments and started investigating, etc.
The sad part is that no money or little money is likely to be collected and few will go to jail. The only upside is that hopefully enough go to Federal prison that others will think twice about opening these scams in our neighborhoods.
I don't think the City is enforcing our nuisance law. There are plenty of properties where police are called three times within a month. Nothing happens with code via the nuisance law.
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