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Stolen IDs, electronic billing and the growth of telemedicine have caused Medicare fraud to spike and spread, with South Florida accounting for more than half of all criminal cases in U.S.
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 ...
John Gorman, a former Medicare official and founder of two companies that review records and conduct home visits on behalf of Medicare insurers, doesn’t think the changes will actually fix the ...
His brother has been charged in a separate 11-count Medicare fraud case. ... the VIP Sleep Center in Fresno and Tulare counties, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release. ...
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 ...
The Medicare Fraud Strike Force is a multi-agency team of United States federal, state, and local investigators who combat Medicare fraud through data analysis and increased community policing. Launched in 2007, the Strike Force is coordinated by the United States Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services .
More than seven years ago, top Justice Department prosecutors traveled to Miami for a news conference to unveil the $1 billion healthcare fraud case against Esformes, touting it as the biggest ...
It was a pre-sentence hearing for defendant Herb Kimble, the mastermind of a long-running, widespread Medicare fraud scheme that cheated the federal government out of $1 billion in fraudulent ...