Health Visions owned and operated  hospitals and clinics in the Philippines.  Thousands of retired military personnel were cared for and services billed.  Claims were inflated by over 200% and there was a phony insurance program that billed for services never received.  He said he was sorry, but sorry was not good enough.  BD 

MADISON, Wisconsin: A former health care executive was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for helping his Philippines-based company swindle nearly $100 million from the U.S. military health insurance program. Thomas Lutz, 41, said in federal court he took responsibility for the six-year scheme in which Health Visions Corp. bilked $99.9 million from the military's Tricare program through inflated and fraudulent claims.

Former US health care exec gets prison time for helping Philippines company swindle millions - International Herald Tribune

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