Were Both Brian Thompson and Luigi Mangione targeted?
I explore the Mangione family's self-reported Medicare fraud last June and Luigi going missing just one month later.
I could be wrong, but so much of Luigi Mangione’s online presence seems planted either by Luigi himself or possibly someone else. There was no mention of a horrific spinal injury in his manifesto or his family’s connections to nursing home fraud.
The media has failed to highlight Brian Thompson reigning in Medicare abuse by nursing home facilities and doctors’ offices thus saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful spending. I guess no one likes to think their local doctor might be a crook.
The Office of Inspector Gerneral has been relentingly prosecuting rampant abuse and Medicare and Medicaid overpayments. On June 4, 2024, The Mangione owned Lorien Health Services “self-reported” Medicaid and Medicare overpayments and agreed to pay $55,000 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law.
Were Both Families Targeted?
On November 18th, Luigi’s mother, Kathleen Mangione, reported her son missing to the San Francisco Police Department and told them she hadn’t heard from him since July—one month after the $55,000 settlement.
So, was the Mangione heir targeted because his family self-reported the fraud or were they involved? It’s hard to know. I’ve written about hypnotic suggestibility and how certain people can be made to kill. It is strange Luigi was retweeting Mike Benz and the criminal Mormon adjacent Marc Andreessen. He was also followed by the Likudnik friendly End Wokeness aka Jack Posobiec.
Brian Thompson was assassinated December 4th and the very next day the OIG updated their guidance on nursing home fraud and abuse. Most likely a coincidence.
Nursing Homes | HHS-OIG | Dec. 5, 2024
Decades of OIG work on nursing homes has uncovered widespread challenges in providing safe, high-quality care. Our audits, evaluations, and investigations have raised concerns regarding staffing levels, background checks for employees, reporting of adverse events experienced by residents, and other issues.
Protect Residents from Fraud, Abuse, and Neglect and Promote Quality of Care
Nursing homes should be environments that are free of harm. However, criminal and civil enforcement actions involving OIG have uncovered misconduct and grossly substandard care in nursing homes. Bad actors perpetrate criminal activity that targets nursing home residents. In other cases, substandard care can result in harm such as costly medical injury, unsafe conditions, and abuse and neglect of residents.
OIG investigates potential violations to hold accountable those who victimize residents of nursing homes. Patient neglect and inadequate care by nursing facilities is a recurring challenge that OIG works with the Department of Justice to address in False Claims Act cases.
Now, rethink those claims UnitedHealth’s CEO Brian Thompson denied. I do find the timing interesting.
As a parent I am truly disturbed Brian Thompson’s kids have to witness people celebrating their father’s murderer before Christmas. This is the season of forgiveness, redemption, and mercy.
Let’s keep both families in our prayers.
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Additional articles on Nursing Home Fraud:
New study links fraud in nursing homes to patient suffering, death | Times Union | Oct 15, 2024
The research examined seven years of data to document wide-ranging fraud that has impacted the safety and care for millions of nursing home residents — and linked that fraud to worsened outcomes, including death.
Researchers at the University of Rochester and the University of Texas at Austin released their findings on Tuesday. First reported by the Times Union, the study presents a starkly unsettling picture of a health care landscape that has become increasingly dominated by private operators…
It’s a particularly lucrative practice in which so-called “opportunistic systems,” or nursing home conglomerates that appear to be the industry’s worst offenders, can net thousands of dollars more for residents in their care. And those residents are nearly 10% more likely to die within the first 90 days of leaving a facility owned by one of the conglomerates, the study found.
The study, which pulled from massive proprietary data sets using information from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, found a two-pronged pattern that the industry’s worst offenders use. The first is by falsifying or exaggerating medical claims sent to Medicaid in order to reap more money for services that nursing home operators did not provide. The second is done by slashing payrolls.
Fraud rampant, OIG refines its focus on nursing homes | McKnights Long-Term Care News | February 19, 2024
For 2024, healthcare fraud has already been rampant, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
How Medicare and Medicaid fraud became a $100B problem for the U.S. | CNBC | Mar. 9, 2023
Additional Research on Brian Thompson and Luigi Mangione.
Was UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson turned Federal Witness in 2017? | Divided & Conquered | Dec 09, 2024
Luigi Mangione's Motive | Divided & Conquered | Dec 10, 2024
The plot thickens! Interesting, indeed.