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To report fraud for Medicare Advantage Plans or Medicare drug plans, a person may call Investigations Medicare Drug Integrity Contractor (I-MEDIC) at 877-7SAFERX (877-772-3379).
If you have a Medicare Advantage or prescription drug plan, you can also call the Investigations Medicare Drug Integrity Contractor at 877-772-3379. Any information you provide can help stop the ...
Call Medicare at 1-800-MEDICARE or the U.S. Health and Human Service’s fraud hotline (800-447-8477). Report identity theft to the Federal Trade Commission at identitytheft.gov .
Billing Medicare programs for services that are more costly than the actual procedure that was done. [5] It is a form of billing fraud where healthcare service providers submit false billing codes to obtain higher reimbursement at the expense of programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE. [7]
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
A claim made to the federal government (e.g., a claim to Medicare for a patient visit) that results from a violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute is, by its by nature, a "false claim" under the False Claims Act and thus may result in liability under the False Claims Act (including the False Claims Act's treble damages and civil monetary penalty ...
In 2014, whistleblowers filed over 700 False Claims Act lawsuits. [21] In 2014, the Department of Justice had its highest annual recovery in False Claims Act history, obtaining more than $6.1 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government. [4]
In a message to employees and partner practices sent on Feb. 29, Mostashari noted that the Justice Department had declined to take over the False Claims Act case.