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A prominent plastic surgeon who two years ago paid more than $800,000 to settle claims of improper Medicare and Medicaid billing is now suing a number of his former attorneys, claiming that it was ...
Attorney misconduct is unethical or illegal conduct by an attorney. Attorney misconduct may include: conflict of interest, overbilling, false or misleading statements, knowingly pursuing frivolous and meritless lawsuits, concealing evidence, abandoning a client, failing to disclose all relevant facts, arguing a position while neglecting to disclose prior law which might counter the argument ...
Overbilling can occur when larger institutions or governments create errors in their calculations of how much various individuals may owe. [4] Banks and credit card providers can also overbill clients, or indirectly facilitate overbilling through the method by which they allow vendors to charge a client after the client has accented to having their card billed. [5]
Aug. 28—A company that provides oxygen equipment agreed to a $29 million settlement to resolve claims, brought by whistleblowers, that they were overbilling Medicare. It's the largest-ever ...
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Michael Cuddy's $113,500 bill submitted to the court for his services was halved by a judge who deemed charging $550 per hour based on a generative AI tool as unwise.
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. Some people receiving the Medicare hospice benefit, which pays all hospice costs provided patients meet a set of criteria that indicate death is imminent, were healthy enough to ...
The kind of intentional overbilling a former Kirkland & Ellis lawyer recently admitted is rare, experts say. But when it does occur, it can be seen as another consequence of law firms ...