By Jeff Glor & Ben Eisler, CBS News, Feb. 21, 2013

[....] On Wednesday, 150 federal and state agents raided The SCOOTER Store headquarters in New Braunfels, Texas, and agents remain on the site. [....]

Late last year, former employees told CBS News the company's main goal is not to help patients -- it's to bulldoze doctors into writing prescriptions to boost profits. Former SCOOTER Store employee Brian Setzer said, "Bulldoze and get them to get the paperwork done."

CTM special correspondent Jeff Glor asked, "So people could get those wheelchairs?"

Setzer replied, "Yes."

"Even if they didn't need them," Glor said.

Setzer said, "Yeah."

The issue is that once a doctor has written a prescription, Medicare rarely verifies whether the chairs are actually necessary. The problem was crystallized when the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services released this report, finding that industry-wide, 80 percent of Medicare payments for power chairs are made in error, most going to people who don't need them, or who lack proof they need them. [....]