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Aug. 28—Three principals of Phinaliz Communications LLC, a company based in Otsego County, were arrested Thursday, Aug. 24 in connection with a long-running scheme to steal more than $1 million ...
Whitson testified that one in five dollars spent on Medicaid is improper, and Medicaid fraud and mismanagement is on track to cost U.S. taxpayers $1 trillion in the next 10 years. ... "A state has ...
Aug. 25—A Pembroke woman has been indicted on felony charges for allegedly stealing more than $16,000 from the Medicaid program by filing fraudulent claims. A Merrimack County Grand Jury ...
Statistical research indicates that the vast majority of fraud is committed by businesses serving the recipients of government benefits. [5] Welfare or benefits fraud committed by recipients is usually of very modest sums, and is committed by people who struggle with poverty; but once started it often continues after reaching financial stability.
On January 11, 2016, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant appointed John Davis as the director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services. [2] At the time, the agency was providing a record low number of recipients with direct cash assistance welfare in favor of other programs, such as job training classes.
A case of Medicaid fraud was carried out in 2010 by an Armenian-American organized crime group called the Mirzoyan–Terdjanian organization. [1] [2] The scam involved a crime syndicate which created 118 fake clinics in 25 states and used stolen medical license numbers of real doctors and matched them to legitimate Medicare patients whose names and billing information were also stolen.
KFF Health News interviewed Medicaid recipients, attorneys, and former caseworkers and government employees, and read thousands of pages from contracts, ongoing lawsuits, company materials, and ...
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 .