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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 ...
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 ...
The roster of companies accused of billing fraud includes Miami-based Vitas, the largest hospice provider in the nation. Prosecutors accuse these companies of overbilling for care that isn’t required, refusing to discharge patients who improve and enrolling people who aren’t dying.
Provider fraud consists of claims submitted by medical care providers, and may include billing for services not rendered, billing for higher level of services than those provided, making false statements on claims submissions, double-billing by doctors who charge more than once for the same service, performance of unnecessary medical treatments ...
A Middlesex County man who provided billing services for a Brooklyn-based orthopedic surgery practice has been charged with stealing more than $1 million from doctors who provided medical care to ...
A lawsuit against Vanderbilt University Medical Center over the release of medical records ... The attorney general said it needed the records for an investigation into possible medical billing fraud.
“Our Civil Medicaid Fraud Unit began investigating after watching a video in which a VUMC doctor described how she manipulated billing codes to avoid insurance coverage limitations.
(Reuters) -Walgreens Boots Alliance agreed to pay $106.8 million to settle charges it fraudulently billed the U.S. government for prescriptions that were never dispensed, the Department of Justice ...