In a local newspaper (Southern California) I saw a classified ad that reads:
WANTED DIABETES TEST STRIPS
Any Kind/Any Brand.
Unexpired. Pay up to $18.00 Per Box.
Call 1-800-xxx-xxx or [website]
Certainly this encourages insurance fraud where a diabetes patient obtains strips for free from (or subsidized through) their insurance or benefits and then instead of using those strips turns around and resells them to this online outfit.
I know insurance fraud is illegal, but this outfit probably gets by doing this as they wouldn't know how the seller came into acquiring the strips. But just like a pawn shop isn't free to fence stolen goods, shouldn't this outfit have similar restrictions? Their website shows references that include numerous resellers from California.
Any fraud such as this increases my medical insurance rates so I am curious if the industry has addressed this issue at all.
WANTED DIABETES TEST STRIPS
Any Kind/Any Brand.
Unexpired. Pay up to $18.00 Per Box.
Call 1-800-xxx-xxx or [website]
Certainly this encourages insurance fraud where a diabetes patient obtains strips for free from (or subsidized through) their insurance or benefits and then instead of using those strips turns around and resells them to this online outfit.
I know insurance fraud is illegal, but this outfit probably gets by doing this as they wouldn't know how the seller came into acquiring the strips. But just like a pawn shop isn't free to fence stolen goods, shouldn't this outfit have similar restrictions? Their website shows references that include numerous resellers from California.
Any fraud such as this increases my medical insurance rates so I am curious if the industry has addressed this issue at all.