solomon melgen is also the top medicare billing doctor in the country, collecting $21 million taxpayerone. newly released information, information the government kept private for decades is shedding new light on a $100 billion system, showing just how flawed it is. >> look, in a business where every doctor is reimbursed for every single drug and situation, there is incentive to pay for care. >> a handful of individual doctors like dr. melgen raked in millions, more than 18 million for a cardiologist, new york radiologist eric snipper was nowhere close, collecting aboutr $25,000. but he says releasing the data in raw form is not fair. >> it is based on gross income. so for example there is no accounting for how much money it costs the physician to provide the service. >> doctors get the money on reimbursement rates that are cut, take away the costs for a drug or procedure and medicare can be a money loser, nonetheless, fraud is rampant, florida recovered billions last year, and that just scratches the surface. solomon melgen has been under investigation over his billing, although his at

corruption news you already know the name of the biggest medicare recipient as far as doctors go, solomon melgenho got caught up with corruption scandals related to democratic senator from new jersey, robert menendez. he is eye in florida and got in trouble for overbilling medicare and in fact had to pay back millions of dollars. still after money paid back he is number one recipient of medicare money and given over $700,000, i think over a million, i will have to double-check numbers to democratic politicians and super pacs. this guy is going ahead and bankrolling democrats, possibly fleecing medicare, and then pocketing millions of taxpayer dime. gerri: the reports i have read, is that a lot of that money you described, 700,000, going to super pac that donated to senator menendez, who spoke to the feds on his behalf about this money. >> on his behalf. gerri: big investigation. >> yeah. gerri: what about, there is the private jet story. menendez borrowed his private jet, this doctor's private jet. >> yeah. gerri: these problems go back to 2007. how is it possible that all of this time later, se