Posts Tagged ‘Health Care Fraud’

The Complete Game

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First Derivative Traders , a Supreme Court decision that limits corporate liability in federal securities fraud cases. Thomas Hungar, a former deputy solicitor general, argued for client Microsoft Corporation in Microsoft Corp. v. …
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DOJ Health Care Chief and Former FCPA Assistant Chief to Join Jones Day in …

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He also led DOJ's Medicare Fraud Strike Forces across the country, which over the past five years investigated and prosecuted over 1100 defendants responsible for approximately $ 3 billion in health care fraud. While with the FCPA Unit, …
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DOJ Posts Record For Health Care Fraud Cases

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Two thousand eleven has been a record year for prosecutors who bring health care fraud cases. This year, the Justice Department pursued more than a thousand new criminal prosecutions nationwide. Authorities say the volume of theft from Medicare and …
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More Medicaid Fraud
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Another day another Medicaid fraud settlement. In this one, Shield Healthcare, a California medical supplier, paid $ 5 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit that alleged that Shield submitting inflated bills to California's Medicaid program. …
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Company targeted by Feds for health care fraud
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US Attorney Jerry Martin, in interviews and speeches, has vowed to prosecute fraud cases of all sizes in Middle Tennessee, from individuals running sham storefronts to elaborate false-billing schemes. Prosecutors here have closed several cases in …
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Related Medical Billing Fraud Information…

Judges saying 'no bond' to white-collar suspects
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In Detroit, several foreign suspects have recently been ordered locked up pending trial: three are Medicare fraud suspects and two are charged in an insurance-fraud-by-arson case. One defendant — a pharmacist with two children in the US — has pleaded …
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Prime hospital reports simultaneous cases of heart failure, septicemia
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Like acute heart failure, septicemia is classified as a major complication by Medicare. The diagnosis entitles providers to hefty treatment bonuses. Prime is being investigated by federal authorities for suspected Medicare fraud in connection with its …
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HHS Expands Initiative To Protect Medicare And Seniors From Fraud
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The 2011 grants will provide additional funds for SMPs to increase awareness among Medicare beneficiaries about how to prevent, detect, and report health care fraud. Increased funding levels for states identified with high-fraud areas will support …
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Sens Carper Coburn Welcome Introduction of House Companion Bill to Fight Waste …
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Among its provisions, the FAST Act would: enact stronger penalties for Medicare fraud; curb improper payments and establish stronger fraud and waste prevention strategies to help phase out the practice of "pay and chase"; curb the theft of physician …
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Medicare Fraud-A Growing Concern
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By Adam Strauhoff on October 25, 2011 Medicare fraud occurs when Medicare is billed for medical services and health supplies the member never received. This fraudulent schemes burdens Medicare by millions every year. This is brought about when doctors …
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Detroit: Medicare Fraud Summit Preventing Health Care Fraud Panel

Admissibility of Prior Medicare Administrative Actions in Health Care Fraud Cases
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Attorneys defending Medicare providers in Federal Health Care Fraud (18 USC §1347) trials should be prepared for the government to file motions in limine seeking to introduce highly prejudicial evidence from prior Medicare civil overpayment recovery … Read more on JD Supra (press release)

Health executive lobbied in Washington to advance Medicare fraud scheme
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records show. “Duran did not stop with just committing a massive fraud on the Medicare program through his own companies. Duran franchised his fraud to others,” trial lawyer Jennifer Saulino wrote in a sentencing memo last month. … Read more on Washington Post

Former Edgewater Hospital owner, lawyer charged with perjury, obstruction
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The hospital, located at 5700 North Ashland Avenue, closed in December 2001 and entered bankruptcy in 2002, about the same time four doctors, a vice president and the management company pleaded guilty to federal criminal health-care fraud charges … Read more on Chicago Tribune