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Doctors' groups, patients, and insurance companies have criticized medical malpractice litigation as expensive, adversarial, unpredictable, and inefficient. They claim that the cost of medical malpractice litigation in the United States has steadily increased at almost 12 percent annually since 1975. [ 26 ]
Under federal law, health care fraud in the United States is defined, and made illegal, primarily by the health care fraud statute in 18 U.S.C. § 1347 states [4] (a) Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice— (1) to defraud a financial institution; or
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 ...
A Southern California doctor accused of bilking Medicare out of millions by billing for unnecessary hospice services has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, federal prosecutors said. Dr ...
The doctor allegedly wrote thousands of prescriptions for equipment and services that were medically necessary. Lexington doctor took part in Medicare fraud of more than $28 million, indictment ...
A federal jury convicted a Fredericksburg doctor on Friday for a $70 million Medicare fraud scheme in which he signed thousands of prescriptions for braces and genetic tests that he said were ...
In this period he conducted hundreds of autopsies and testified in court multiple times. He conducted training sessions for lawyers on how to examine and cross-examine expert witnesses, and training for law-enforcement and medical staff on detecting child abuse. [7] While at Sick Children's Hospital, Smith lived on a farm in Newmarket.
BOSTON – A Canton orthopedic surgeon has been convicted of health care fraud by a federal jury in Boston, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release.. Dr. Olarewaju James Oladipo, 60, of ...