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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 ...
An unnamed doctor with the facility was also referenced in the indictment. All parties were employed at the Kentucky Addiction Center, which is an outpatient Suboxone clinic located in Winchester, KY.
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 ...
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 .
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.
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.
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 ...
Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging ...