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To report fraud for Medicare Advantage Plans or Medicare drug plans, a person may call Investigations Medicare Drug Integrity Contractor (I-MEDIC) at 877-7SAFERX (877-772-3379).
If you have a Medicare Advantage or prescription drug plan, you can also call the Investigations Medicare Drug Integrity Contractor at 877-772-3379. Any information you provide can help stop the ...
Call Medicare at 1-800-MEDICARE or the U.S. Health and Human Service’s fraud hotline (800-447-8477). Report identity theft to the Federal Trade Commission at identitytheft.gov .
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 FBI estimates that Health Care Fraud costs American tax payers $80 billion a year. [2] Of this amount $2.5 billion was recovered through False Claims Act cases in FY 2010. Most of these cases were filed under qui tam provisions.
In 2014, whistleblowers filed over 700 False Claims Act lawsuits. [21] In 2014, the Department of Justice had its highest annual recovery in False Claims Act history, obtaining more than $6.1 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government. [4]
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A claim made to the federal government (e.g., a claim to Medicare for a patient visit) that results from a violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute is, by its by nature, a "false claim" under the False Claims Act and thus may result in liability under the False Claims Act (including the False Claims Act's treble damages and civil monetary penalty ...