Former US health care exec gets prison time for helping Philippines company swindle millions

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