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2 May 2012, 6:59 pm by McNabb Associates, P.C.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 2, 2012 released the following: "Chicago-Area Man Charged in $1 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme CHICAGO- A south suburban resident who purported to provide psychotherapy services to Medicare patients was charged with participating in a $1 million health care fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced today. [read post]
2 May 2012, 6:59 pm by McNabb Associates, P.C.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 2, 2012 released the following: "Chicago-Area Man Charged in $1 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme CHICAGO- A south suburban resident who purported to provide psychotherapy services to Medicare patients was charged with participating in a $1 million health care fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced today. [read post]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday released a statement that it charged 23 Michigan residents, in two separate cases, for allegedly defrauding Medicare for $61.5 million. [read post]
29 Dec 2009, 4:30 pm by Curran Tomko Tarski LLP
As the interagency Medicare Fraud Strike Force targeting Medicare Fraud scored another series of more than 15 successful criminal enforcement actions across the national during December, 2009, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) credited the Medicare Fraud Strike Force and other stepped up oversight and enforcement activities as helping it achieve $20.97 Billion in Medicare and other federal… [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 11:54 am by admin
The new strike force teams are a central feature of HEAT (Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team), a joint initiative announced in May 2009 by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services to focus on deterring and punishing health care fraud. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 6:30 am
HOUSTON, TEXAS - The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced that Ekpedeme Obot, 34, pled guilty to health care fraud and making false statements relating to health care matters in a $1.3 million Medicare fraud scheme. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As part of ongoing efforts to prevent and fight health care fraud, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to acquire and new state-of-the-art predictive modeling fraud fighting analytic tools to prevent wasteful and fraudulent payments in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance… [read post]
5 Apr 2008, 10:46 am
Department of Health & Human Services on March 25, 2008, entitled Medicare Trustees Report Shows Serious Financial Status of Medicare Program: In their annual report, the Medicare Trustees today... [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 5:58 am by The Health Law Firm
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health LawThe owner and operator of a Miami home health care agency pleaded guilty for his part in a $42 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 6:36 am
For some time, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS"), the federal agency responsible for administering Medicare and Medicaid (as well as a host of other federal programs ) within the Department of Health and Human Services, has been hinting that the Medicare Secondary Payer Act applied to future medical services in third party liability cases, pointing out that the statutory language is the same for workers' compensation and liability… [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 2:17 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
  The two-year, $80 billion budget/debt-ceiling deal is funded in part by several significant Medicare and Medicaid policies, including an extension of Medicare sequestration, changes to Medicare payment for services provided in “new” off-campus hospital outpatient departments (OPDs), and extention of inflation-based Medicaid drug rebates to generic drugs. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 9:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 2, 2018, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. said the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has until the end of 2022 to completely clear out its backlog of thousands of Medicare billing appeals. [read post]
18 May 2012, 10:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Houston-area home health nurse will serve a 97 month prison sentence for her participation in a $5.2 million Medicare fraud scheme according to a May 16, 2012 announcement by the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Health and Human Service (HHS). [read post]
1 May 2013, 9:10 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to increase rewards paid to Medicare beneficiaries and others whose tips about suspected fraud lead to the successful recovery of funds to as high as $9.9 million. [read post]
23 Sep 2018, 5:33 pm by Whittel & Melton, LLC
A Clearwater doctor has pleaded guilty to one count of health-care fraud and has agreed to surrender her DEA registration number, her Florida medical license and to a permanent exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to the justice department. [read post]
17 Oct 2023, 8:53 am by Melissa Revuelta
Gruchacz of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 7:42 am
JudiceThe Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued its Fiscal Year 2008 Work Plan on October 1, 2007. [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 2:01 am by Jon Gelman
For example, Medicare pays 141 percent more for one type of echocardiogram when done in ahospital outpatient department than when it is done in a freestanding physician’s office. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 14, 2015, Ann Maxwell, Assistant Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), gave testimony to Congress on the Medicare Part D Program. [read post]