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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 ...
“Gustavo Kinrys lied to Medicare and private insurers, billing them for over $19 million worth of mental health treatments he never provided and then obstructed our investigation in an attempt ...
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.
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 ...
A federal jury convicted a Fredericksburg doctor on Friday for a $70 million Medicare fraud scheme in which he signed thousands of prescriptions for braces and genetic tests that he said were ...
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 .
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Office of Investigations (OI). OI conducts criminal, civil, and administrative investigations of fraud and misconduct related to HHS programs, operations, and beneficiaries. With investigators working in almost every State, OI coordinates with DOJ and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement authorities.