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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 ...
They also found that Fata took kickbacks from two local hospices and poured Medicare and private insurance proceeds into his own diagnostic testing facility, where he ordered unnecessary tests. On the basis of these findings, Barbara McQuade , the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan , obtained a series of superseding ...
Several employees and physicians of a Central Kentucky addiction center have been indicted in federal court on more than a dozen counts of healthcare fraud related charges after they were found to ...
Four doctors from Tennessee clinics took part in a conspiracy that helped feed illegal drug sales in southeastern Kentucky, a jury has ruled. The jury in federal court in Frankfort convicted Mark ...
Doctors, nurses and others charged with taking kickbacks in end-of-life fraud case February 24, 2022 at 5:59 PM They were supposed to be near death and in desperate need of end-of-life care to ...
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.
OIG Special Agents have special skills in investigating white collar crime related to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse. Organized crime has dominated the criminal activity relative to this type of fraud. [citation needed] HHS-OIG investigates tens of millions of dollars in Medicare fraud each year.
Under Medicaid regulations, patients may use transportation services for legitimate appointments which are billed to the Medicaid program by the provider. Phinaliz is owned by Mtui. Kaiza is the ...