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A case of Medicaid fraud was carried out in 2010 by an Armenian-American organized crime group called the Mirzoyan–Terdjanian organization. [1] [2] The scam involved a crime syndicate which created 118 fake clinics in 25 states and used stolen medical license numbers of real doctors and matched them to legitimate Medicare patients whose names and billing information were also stolen.
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
That state law had required Medicaid beneficiaries who received money from a tort judgment or settlement to give one-third of that money to the state to reimburse it for the free medical care it had provided to the person. Florida v. Jardines: 11-564: 2013-03-26
Three Minnesotans have been charged with a Medicaid fraud conspiracy run through a treatment center in St. Paul, according to U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. Luger’s office says Shawn Ashley ...
Getty ImagesBrooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson speaks at a 2014 tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Thomson alleges that nearly two dozen health professionals defrauded the Medicaid program ...
Several employees and physicians of a Central Kentucky addiction center have been indicted in federal court on more than a dozen counts of healthcare fraud related charges after they were found to ...
Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging ...
Medicaid spending totaled $880 billion in fiscal year 2023, with the federal government picking up about 69% of the costs and states about 31%. It accounts for nearly one in five dollars spent on ...