Hiltzik: An explosion in Medicare fraud | #phishing | #scams | #education | #technology | #infosec

For the better part of a decade, a time bomb has been ticking at Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente — an accumulation of allegations that the giant health plan systematically defrauded Medicare by overstating the severity of its patients’ medical conditions. On July 30, the bomb detonated. That’s when the Department of…