Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
THE LARGEST RACKETEERING SCAM IN US HISTORY | Healthcare Fraudster Exposes Industry Secrets
Thu, 23 Jan 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
The whole healthcare system is such a scam. You're talking to a guy that was on the inside of an insurance company.
The FBI swarming a Miami house over healthcare and wire fraud.
What United does is what every insurance company does. You want to talk about a legal racket that's protected by the federal government? It's the biggest racketeering scam on the face of the planet. The official charge I was given was conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. And looking back at it, I didn't think it was a big deal, but now I understand kind of like the cost of white collar crime.
So what I thought was happening was we were taking the money from the insurance company and it was like, eat the loss. Fuck you. Right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what happens. They don't take a loss. They report the fraud to the federal government and the federal government reimburses them every dollar we've stolen.
Chapter 2: How does healthcare fraud occur?
Okay.
So now I didn't steal from Blue Cross Blue Shield. Now I stole from the American taxpayer. Right. Now I'm on the hook for that money with the federal government. So it's like... the whole healthcare system is such a scam like this whole thing with Luigi first off Luigi Mangione is a murderer I'm not even gonna try to defend that guy but the conversation it's a total scam
You're talking to a guy that was on the inside of an insurance company. What United does is what every insurance company does. They deny a bunch of claims. You know how many legit doctors I saw that were billing or legit hospitals that were billing for a legal within compliance procedure they did that the insurance company was like, eh, we don't feel like paying you $50,000.
You know, we're going to deny your claim. Go appeal it. Go appeal it to who? To the same people who don't want to pay me? It's a scam. It's a total... Insurance is like... You want to talk about a legal racket that's protected by the federal government? It's the biggest racketeering scam on the face of the planet. The only difference is that what I do is illegal and what they do is legal.
You know? So it's like the flip side to the coin. But yeah. I didn't realize the toll like... how that system is kind of like really protected and how I'm really like, what I did was it really hurt like everyday people because at the end of the day that causes like all kinds of burdens on the economy and the average taxpayer.
So yeah, it's, it wasn't until I finished doing everything and I learned more about the legal system that I was like, fuck. So that's, that's what happens. That's how I affect other people. It's so I worked for a Medicare HMO. Right. So we're dealing with low income senior citizens, people who can't afford regular health insurance. And in Miami, it's such a scam.
You have like Leon Medical Centers, Simply Healthcare Plans, Sun Health, Humana. I'm sure this means nothing to you guys, but all these insurance companies offer what's called Medicare Advantage.
So basically, instead of having original Medicare through the government where you're covered up to 80% of your medical bills, they get this Medicare Advantage plan where basically that company is getting a subsidy from the government. And what they do is they go in and negotiate with doctors to pay them a lower rate and they get the difference in the subsidy.
Okay.
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Chapter 3: What are the consequences of healthcare fraud?
They had actually just gotten acquired for $1 billion by Anthem. Anthem is the same company that owns Blue Cross Blue Shield and a bunch of other giant companies. They deny claims all the time. Even if you... And it was an HMO, so that means they had a network. You had to go in-network. You had to go to an in-network doctor, in-network facility, unless it's like an emergency.
And emergency bills got denied all the time. They would deny people for going, oh, because you didn't go... Oh, you went to the right doctor, but you didn't file... Oh, you're one digit off on the claim number. Oh, you did this, but, you know... You didn't do it at fucking five o'clock, which is the time when you're like stupid shit.
And they denied any little reason they had to deny medical claims. They did it. And again, you're talking about senior citizens, people who we should be looking out for and not trying to take advantage of. Right. You know, they talk about scammers like what I did. Oh, yeah, you're a fraudster. Yet these Medicare HMO companies are taking advantage of old people.
Like, the most vulnerable class we have in society, which is elders and kids. So, yeah, man, like, the whole thing that's going on with United, yeah, fuck Luigi. He's not cool. I mean, he murdered a guy in cold blood, but it does bring up the same old conversation. Like... And now how they're involving AI to deny claims and stuff, that's a whole other ballgame.
I haven't seen how that works, but the conversation definitely needs to be had. I mean, there's no reason they should be federally backed. If money gets stolen from you, you got to deal with that. Why the fuck is that coming from taxpayer money? Why should that come from the federal government? That makes no sense. These systems, they should definitely be updated or something.
It's a broken system, that's for sure.
We had a TikTok about that same topic due to 2 million. Oh, that's fantastic. Yeah. And the guy was talking about the AI. Basically, the healthcare, you know, they had the AI that was denying claims and they knew it was faulty. But the CEO was just like, let it roll. Let it ride. Yeah. So...
No, no. The CEOs are completely complicit and aware of denying these claims. Don't think that it's like, oh, yeah, it's some guy. No, no, no, no. They're making the decisions from like a high level. They are hyper aware of what's going on in their companies. And they're the ones making the decision to deny those claims to make the company more money. It's completely illicit and it's disgusting.
It's pure greed. It's just greed.
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Chapter 4: What role do insurance companies play in healthcare fraud?
And how he just said, I'm going to do X, Y, and Z, and he did it. It was like... It was inspiring to me. Because I didn't... At that time, I didn't know anybody successful. I didn't know anybody that made money. So I was like, man, like... If I could do that, but with something else, my life will turn out pretty good. You know? And it really... It just stuck with me. It stuck in my brain.
Like... He was like this confident, like ambitious guy. Right. So... And that whole era to me is like, I've told you, that's one of my favorite eras. The 80s, Miami, all the fucking gangster drug lords and shit. To me, it's a never-ending, exciting chain of stories. Look at the Cowboys guy. Look how much money he's made off that franchise. He's made like...
It's one, two documentaries, a talkie series, and it's all like eighties, Miami Cuban drug dealer guys, you know? So that all, that all was very inspiring to me as a kid, you know, I think of his name, Corbin, Billy Corbin, Jewish guy down in Miami. So, so that's how my mom got here.
She got here in 1980 and the boat lift, um, with my grandfather, my grandfather, that's, that's, I lived with him for many years. My father got here in 1988 and, He actually got a fake Venezuelan passport and went to Panama. And then in Panama, he took the bus to Mexico, and then he crossed the border where my aunt was waiting for him to go get him. My parents met.
And then, funny enough, right when I'm born in 1992, I don't know how this happened, but my dad decides to get involved in the drug trade. Don't ask me how he decided to do that after he had kids.
You saw Scarface, right? Yeah.
this is the way you do it yeah so he starts making money make a really good living um and that lasted that that was very short-lived because what's short-lived like six months or a year two years what's the lifespan of it well i didn't find any of this out until i was older i was like a teenager when when like i started oh so that's why we went to disneyland every weekend you know
Did he, did he go to jail?
No, no, no, no, no. He, he, he can't, he gained enough sense to where he stopped, but it was a good, I would have to say a good solid three years. Okay. Solid three years. Um, you know, he'd tell me stories when I was older of like, you remember that little, you know, bag that had Woody on it that I would take to like trips. And that was like your bag. And I'd put in lockers. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How does the Medicare Advantage system contribute to fraud?
Yeah, we talked about that yesterday. We were talking about how like that whole kind of from Miami up the – Up the coast there, it's like there's tons of con men and all these guys get arrested in New York and go to prison for fraud. They all relocate back down there. The mobsters all relocate back down there.
Yeah. And South Florida, funny enough, my judge sat in court and said, you know, if this were other areas of the country, we'd be having a different conversation, but I specifically have a message from Washington that I need to send a message to you guys here in South Florida because this is the fraud capital of the world. The fraud capital of the world, bro. That's fucking insane.
I didn't even know that. But yeah, I don't know what it is about Miami. I think maybe it's the lifestyle that attracts those kinds of people. Snakes and the con men and all the weird shit that goes on. I've never really understood it, but that's a stigma that we carry, unfortunately, and it sucks because there's a lot of great people that have built the city.
You know, my grandparents, my uncles, aunts, they're just honest people, but...
yeah like that's just been the way of life down there you know everybody knows somebody everybody has that uncle you know it was there's so there's a funny joke that went on in the 80s um when you show up at like a mini mansion or a mansion there was this big party and you meet the owner of the house and you're and you'd be like what do you do for a living and he's like oh i'm the marimbero i play the marimba the marimba is the xylophone it's like a wooden xylophone
So that name caught on. So that's what we called drug traffickers. Like Cubans in Spanish, we call them marimberos. Okay. That's like a made up term that doesn't even exist in the rest of the country. It's funny when you think about it. And then we actually tell other people who speak Spanish about that term, and they're just like, they don't even know what that means. All right.
So anyway, so I'm born in 1992. You know, that all happens. I'm like in elementary school, a kid. You know, my parents are square people at this point. They make money. My mom's a waitress. My dad's a truck driver.
Um, and then I have a fairly normal upbringing besides here and there, you know, again, my, the Miami culture had a cousin who was just like nuts, you know, he was a little thug on the street. He's actually the one that showed me Scarface for the first time as a kid. Makes sense, right? So, yeah.
And in a weird way, in spite of him kind of like being wild and like doing all that wild shit on the streets, it was good for me to be around him because my parents were getting divorced at the time. So he was good, like a good older brother figure kind of to have. I'll actually tell you the story of how he moved in. So my parents were fighting for years before they got divorced.
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Chapter 6: What is the impact of fraud on vulnerable populations?
And to me, it was more like, okay. whatever you know well and also you'd seen movies and been exposed to it that too that too yeah i started watching other kids probably wouldn't be watching at that age yeah yeah yeah yeah so he he watches scarface every day i'm not exaggerating every day like that's horrible Our parrot's name was Yeyo.
And we named him Yeyo because his favorite line was, Chi-Chi, Chi-Chi, get the Yeyo. Like, he said it every day. And like I said, in a weird way, I knew the things that were going on were wrong. Like, the things he would do was wrong. The things Scarface did was wrong. But I didn't want to be like my environment, funny enough, even though I ended up in prison, which is, I'll get to that.
I didn't want to sell drugs and I didn't want to like run around on the street. Um, I wanted to be like just different, you know, I didn't want to, I saw that as like, Almost like, oh, that's what they do. I'm not them. I'm different. So that's how I kind of started watching these gangster movies as a kid to get inspiration.
I kind of picked what I thought was good and kind of left what I didn't like. So that was about middle school. uh i get to high school and then my my mom ends up marrying my stepdad well they don't get officially married but they get together and my stepfather is uh a notorious career criminal notorious like
he was he had done six years gotten caught a few times the only reason he hadn't gotten deported is because cubans are like a special we have this weird thing because of like cuba and it's a communist country and that's they don't have to send you back yeah you're here illegally you're allowed to stay right exactly wet foot dry foot all that stuff yeah yeah yeah so policy whatever
That was like... I mean, he tried to sort of hide what he did from us, but it was too obvious. He was a notorious gangster. He would sit on houses full of drugs and wait for the right time and bust in there with three of his buddies, beat the fuck out of everybody, steal everything, sell all the shit. There was this one story, this one time my mom told me that was pretty wild. He sat...
and watched this guy who owned a jewelry shop for like four days and he would just follow him and follow him and follow him and follow him and follow him until like he got his his schedule down and then this one time he just sat waited for the guy the guy walked in for the jewelry shop he popped his trunk open because he had seen him put a bag in there took the bag and just took off and the bag had like 50 grand in it
You know, that's how he made his living. Like robbing, stealing, selling, like whatever. He's in the building in FCI right now in downtown Miami. Yeah. It's crazy.
Can't get right.
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Chapter 7: How does one get involved in healthcare fraud?
attorney phrases it. Yeah. They said in my case, ignorance is not an excuse for breaking the law. Anyway, so... I go, I fill out the papers and then, you know, they get photocopied my insurance card, all that shit. And then the guy that was there, he's like, all right, man, you're all set. You know, the doctor's not here today, but we'll give you a call to reschedule your appointment.
I'm like, okay, I'll probably have to come back at some point. All right. The guy actually ends up calling me and he's like, yo, did you go? Yeah. Yeah. I went. All right. Look, come here. I'm here. Come to my house. I go to his house and he gives me $800 and I was only expecting like 300. Okay. Okay. all right, this is cool. And he goes, Hey, all right.
Well, does everybody at your job have that insurance? I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, well, let me tell you, I'm willing to pay you a little more now. Cause I know this is legitimate. I'll pay you $2,000 per person that you bring over here. And I was like, now I'm just like, so you're going to get two grand and he's going to get eight.
The other person's going to get 800.
No, he's going to give me two grand and it's up to me how much I pay the person. Okay. Yeah. So at this point, I'm like, oh, shit. All right. Now we're talking, right?
Right.
And I never asked, but at this point, I'm like, all right, there's something illegal here, but I don't think this is enough money to get in trouble, right? So in my head, I'm like, it's a few thousand dollars. Yeah, I get it. It's a couple thousand dollars. He's really the main guy. I'm not. All right, whatever.
He's robbing the bank. You're just driving the getaway car. I didn't do anything. Oh, okay. That excuse doesn't work well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And my whole reasoning the whole time was like, I'm a small fish. They're not going to want me. And then I refer one, I refer two, I refer three, I refer four, 10, 20, 30, and it goes pretty well. Right, I guess.
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Chapter 8: What lessons can be learned from healthcare fraud experiences?
These are bad examples. All right, I hear you.
Yeah, the most gorgeous women you've ever seen in your life. Anyway, so I go to Colombia, and I have my three-day, three-, four-, five-day debauchery binge.
i'm like on top of the world i have like a super fantastic business i got away scott free i'm a legit guy now i'm not breaking the law so i get back on a monday and i get off the plane and we're walking towards immigration and there's these four tsa officers mind you the one there's two of them are wearing regular clothes he's like hey you two step aside And I was like, the fuck is going on here?
You know, mind you, I'm coming back from Columbia. So I didn't really like, I had stopped doing it four years earlier. Right. So at this point, I really did think like. You forgot all about this. I got away with this. Yes. This is done.
They're not going to wait four years. Exactly. That's crazy.
No, no, no. A thousand percent. So the TSA officers pull us aside. They let everybody pass. Where the last ones left, it was like this.
You just think it's a random stop?
I have no idea at this point. I think it is weird, but again, it doesn't occur to me. So they stopped me. They asked me, where are you coming from? Medellin. Why'd you go? For a vacation. Who are you with? Him. Who is he? My friend. Mind you, this is a buddy of mine that just went to Columbia with me. They do this, like, 30-minute interrogation there in the hallway.
Then they put me in a room, look through all my shit, fucking pat me down. After, like, an hour of being with them, they let me go. And I was like, hmm, that's fucking weird. Whatever. I didn't think much of it. I just left it. It was random. That was Monday. So Thursday... I get a call at five in the morning to my cell phone. It's a phone number I don't recognize.
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