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24 September 2020

More evidence that Miami is a cesspool of fraud

Miami-Dade County received about half a billion dollars from Medicare in home health care payments intended for the sickest patients in...

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24 September 2020

Federal jury in Idaho convicts two for healthcare fraud

Ronald Bret Hamilton, 49, of Pocatello, and Vanessa Cattanea, 36, of Charleston, West Virginia, were convicted Wednesday by a federal jury...

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24 September 2020

Iowa hospital to pay feds $400,000 for false billing

A northwest Iowa hospital has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle allegations that it purposely overcharged federal health-care programs for the...

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24 September 2020

Fla. care provider accused of bribing federal contractor

Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal...

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24 September 2020

Miamian charged with lying to FBI in health fraud case

Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal...

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24 September 2020

Three care providers charged with fraud in Connecticut

Two personal care assistants and the Meriden woman who employed them were arrested today and charged with billing the state’s Medicaid...

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24 September 2020

Two care providers in Vt. charged with Medicaid fraud

Federal and state prosecutors are each pursuing cases after a joint investigation into alleged Medicaid fraud against two women from Barre...

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24 September 2020

β€˜Cancer of fraud’ permeates U.S. healthcare system

It’s a crime so profitable that even dead people are in on the act. A U.S. Senate committee revealed last year...

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24 September 2020

Feds join fraud lawsuit against Louisiana heart doctor

The federal government has intervened in a civil lawsuit against a Lafayette cardiologist convicted of charges he performed medically unnecessary heart...

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24 September 2020

Backload of federal health fraud cases at record levels

The Justice Department has nearly 1,000 pending civil cases involving health-care fraud, a caseload that has grown by more than a...

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