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[15] The jury found him guilty of 23 counts of health care fraud and 30 counts of false statements related to health care matters. [16] He faced 475 years. That would give him 10 years for 13 health care fraud counts and 20 years for 10 others because those 10 others resulted in serious bodily injury, and 5 years for false statements related to ...
A Southern California doctor accused of bilking Medicare out of millions by ... He pleaded guilty to one count of healthcare fraud on July 24, and will have to pay nearly $3.3 million in ...
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 ...
Fata requested that his guilty plea be tossed in May 2018, based on the assertion that he received poor legal advice that resulted in his guilty plea and that he has always maintained his innocence, despite his admission of guilt during his sentencing hearing. He stated in the filing, "My guilty pleas were not the result of my actually being ...
Ten doctors, two pharmaceutical executives and two businesses have been indicted in a scheme to bribe doctors for prescriptions, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton ...
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 ...
Sham peer review or malicious peer review is a name given to the abuse of a medical peer review process to attack a doctor for personal or other non-medical reasons. [1] The American Medical Association conducted an investigation of medical peer review in 2007 and concluded that while it is easy to allege misconduct and 15% of surveyed physicians indicated that they were aware of peer review ...
A Lexington doctor has surrendered his license after being sentenced to prison in connection with writing medical orders that resulted in $14 million in fraudulent billing.