HJBR Sep/Oct 2019

Health Insurance Hustle a bitter and hurtful divorce have resulted in the ending of this unprecedented and ben- eficial opportunity to help many people,” he wrote. Lankford and Pratte are proud of their part in ending his scheme, if still baffled that they had to play such a central role in uncovering it. If it hadn’t been for the iPad messages, “I have to believe he would still be billing insurance companies from a Caribbean island,” Pratte said. n “But private health insurers allow so much fraud that prosecutors use an idiom to describe the rare person who gets caught: “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.”