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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 ...
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).
A medical billing company owner, Elaine Lovett, of Wayne County, Michigan, was convicted in 2017 for her role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud Medicare using false billing claims, in a ...
Fata was the owner of Michigan Hematology-Oncology (MHO), one of the largest cancer practices in Michigan. He was arrested in 2013 on charges of prescribing chemotherapy to patients who were healthy or whose condition did not warrant chemotherapy, then submitting $34 million in fraudulent charges to Medicare and private health insurance ...
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 .
This developed into her later research which focused on Medicare fraud and the reasons behind it. Her team analyzed demographics of patients seen by excluded and non-excluded providers, and found that those excluded were more likely to be minorities, disabled, and dually-enrolled in Medicaid to supplement financial assistance for health care. [13]
Alfredo Ruiz of Miami, who was convicted of conspiring to launder about $4.5 million that Medicare paid to two companies in 2019, was arrested by federal agents at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.
Trump's DOGE has already gutted USAID, but Musk argued on X that Medicare and Medicaid are where the "big money fraud" is happening. CMS oversees Medicare, the health coverage program for older ...