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Eric Poehlman (US), a former Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Vermont, was convicted in 2005 of grant fraud after falsifying data in as many as 17 grant applications between 1992 and 2000. He was the first academic in the United States to be jailed for falsifying data in a grant application.
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 ...
Provisions of the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act include the following. Appropriates an additional $320 billion of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program , which provides low-interest loans for payroll costs and other expenses to small businesses that are forgivable under certain circumstances. [ 19 ]
Subsection (a)(1)(A) of Section 666 prohibits the embezzlement, stealing, obtaining by fraud or otherwise unauthorized conversion to the use of any person other than the rightful owner or the intentional misapplication of property having a value of $5,000 or more by an agent, typically an employee, of an organization or of a state, local or Indian tribal government agency that receives $10,000 ...
Four men face charges from the Orange County district attorney's office in connection with allegedly billing nearly $100 million in fraudulent fees.
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta joined a coalition of more than 20 states Friday in asking a federal court to once again intercede and force the Trump administration to unfreeze billions of ...
Two Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office employees have been demoted after supervisors discovered a backlog of 700-plus fraud complaints stretching back years. The result: Hundreds of cases cannot ...
Insurance fraud may be proseucuted as a crime in all states, whether under general fraud statutes or those that specifically pertain to insurance claims and coverage. The federal government has passed a statute that criminalizes the act of defrauding a health care benefit plan, Section 1347 of Title 18 of the United States Code. [62]