The Scooter Store received as much as $87.7 million in Medicare overpayments from 2009 to 2011, an independent auditor found, but the New Braunfels company only has to repay $19.5 million. Two U.S.

At one time, the Scooter Store was the largest private employer in New Braunfels, Texas. It had more than 2,400 employees with national distribution. An error has ...

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) -- A Texas-based company that sells wheelchairs and motorized scooters to people with limited mobility announced Friday that it's shutting down for good, following federal ...

Last week's raid by 150 agents on The Scooter Store's corporate headquarters in New Braunfels — presumably as part of an investigation into Medicare and Medicaid fraud — capped a tumultuous couple of ...

More than 13,000 Medicare beneficiaries who have been leasing power wheelchairs and scooters from the bankrupt Scooter Store now can take ownership of the devices. An agreement between the company and ...

TV ads show smiling seniors enjoying an “active” lifestyle on a motorized scooter, taking in the sights at the Grand Canyon, fishing on a pier and high-fiving their grandchildren at a baseball game.

WASHINGTON — TV ads show smiling seniors enjoying an “active” lifestyle on a motorized scooter, taking in the sights at the Grand Canyon, fishing on a pier and high-fiving their grandchildren at a ...

SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The Scooter Store, familiar to U.S. TV viewers for its ads for motorized scooters, said it will go out of business after being cut off from Medicare contracts. The ...

he nation's largest motorized-wheelchair supplier will announce today that it is pulling out of Harris County's Medicare market over a fraud crackdown it says has gone too far. The Scooter Store of ...

Bankrupt Scooter Store owes Feds $19.5M or more. April 17, 2013 -- The Scooter Store, which claims it has given 700,000 senior citizens back their mobility, has itself run aground. The company this ...

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, April 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The SCOOTER Store announced today its full support for revisions to the Social Security Act that would eliminate language restricting power ...

Critics say it's putting seniors in costly equipment they don't need, and ripping off the government for what may be hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Now law enforcement is taking action. On ...