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25 Oct 2012, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Two South Florida doctors, both former medical directors at the mental health care company American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), will spend 10 years in prison for their part in a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The University of Miami Hospital allegedly owes Medicare $3.7 million. [read post]
4 May 2012, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Over 100 doctors, nurses and other health professionals were arrested on charges relating to Medicare fraud by federal agents on May 2, 2012. [read post]
The intricacies of the Medicare program will be on display at the Supreme Court next week, in a case challenging a major Department of Health and Human Services payment determination issued without notice-and-comment procedures. [read post]
The Trump Administration’s proposed fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget includes extensive health policy provisions – as evidenced by the 162-page Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “Budget in Brief. [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 10:00 am
The scheme involved billing Medicare for pain treatments that weren’t actually provided, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said. [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 10:00 am
The scheme involved billing Medicare for pain treatments that weren’t actually provided, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said. [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 10:00 am
The scheme involved billing Medicare for pain treatments that weren’t actually provided, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said. [read post]
28 Nov 2017, 12:47 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
Protecting the Integrity of Public Health and Human Services Grants (ensuring effective Department grants management and grantee program integrity). [read post]
29 Jun 2017, 11:19 am by Greene LLP
The settlement resolves allegations that the companies “up-charged” Medicare and other government health programs for services they did not provide, or for which the bills submitted were inappropriate in relation to the services provided. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 1:42 pm by Ben Vernia
On December 11, the Department of Justice announced that it was intervening in a whistleblower’s qui tam suit, brought under the False Claims Act against two California providers under the Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) program. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 8:40 pm
The Justice Department has announced that Besler & Company, Inc., a New Jersey health care consulting firm, and its principal Philip Besler, have agreed to settle allegations of fraud against the federal Medicare program, which were initiated by two qui tam whistleblower cases. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 3:57 pm
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty in Connection with $5.4 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme in Detroit WASHINGTON – A patient recruiter pleaded guilty today for his participation in a Medicare fraud scheme operated out of three Detroit-area health care clinics, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of… [read post]
7 May 2012, 11:26 am
The Department of Justice, along with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that they have charged 107 physicians, nurses, and social workers in seven cities with Medicare fraud as part of a nationwide crackdown on unrelated schemes involving approximately $452 million in false billing. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 6:14 am
Not with Obama's HHS they don't: "The Department of Health and Human Services has given qualified approval for a Medicare provider to give away $20 grocery gift cards to induce seniors to get more taxpayer-funded health screenings, despite concerns the promotion could run afoul of federal anti-kickback laws." [read post]
22 Aug 2023, 7:50 am by Ben Vernia
On July 31, the Department of Justice announced that Portland, Maine-based Martins Point Health Care, Inc., had agreed to pay $22,485,000 to settle a whistleblower’s allegations that the company attempted to increase its reimbursement under the Medicare Advantage program by providing false diagnostic codes for its insurance customers. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 8:57 pm by afehn
Department of Health and Human Services announced today that fifty-three people have been indicted for more than $50 million in alleged Medicare false claims. [read post]
22 Oct 2011, 7:55 pm
An advocacy group he helped set up, the National Association for Behavioral Health (NABH), has spent more than $750,000 on lobbying efforts over the past five years, including staging “fly-ins” on Capitol Hill and providing advice to group members on how to get around Medicare denials, according to the Justice Department. [read post]
Allina Health Services, concerns whether the Department of Health and Human Services was permitted to change, without notice and comment, an important reimbursement formula for hospitals that treat many low-income patients. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 9:00 am by Julie LaVille Hamlet
In a recent report, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that hospices are not always meeting two key coverage requirements for the Medicare hospice benefit: (1) that beneficiaries sign an election statement and (2) that a physician certifies that the beneficiary is terminally ill. [read post]