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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 ...
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 ...
A Manalapan couple has been accused of Medicaid fraud and cheating tax authorities out of more than $750,000 by failing to report nearly $4.5 million in income over five years, authorities said.
53 million Medicaid patients rely on Deloitte software—but the technology has generated notices with errors, sent paperwork to the wrong addresses, and been frozen for hours at a time, according ...
In June 2015, more than 240 individuals—including doctors, nurses, and other licensed professionals—were arrested for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $712 million in false billings. [5] In August 2015, a fake hospice nurse who treated more than 200 patients was sentenced to four years in prison. [6]