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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Obama to order more anti-fraud measures by agencies
More than $98 billion in taxpayer money spent by government agencies was wasted in fiscal 2009—with nearly half of it ($54...
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Feds indict Kentucky man for faking health receipts
A federal grand jury in Paducah Monday indicted a Cape Girardeau man on health care fraud charges. Officials say from January...
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Provider, patient recruiter guilty of fraud in Detroit
Detroit resident Jaquita Lovelace and Miami resident Timothy Pierce have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in...
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Doctor in Virginia convicted of $1.2M Medicare scam
A federal court jury Tuesday found Dr. Ronald Poulin guilty of 28 counts of health care fraud, ruling that he bilked...
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$4M Medicaid scam ends in five years in prison in La.
A New Orleans woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for her role in a scheme to bill the...
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Medicare fraud fugitive captured in South America
A Miami man accused of bilking Medicare out of millions of dollars has been arrested in Ecuador two years after he...
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Three Miami clinic owners headed to federal prison
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Daniel W. Auer, Special Agent in Charge, Internal...
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Medicare scams ignored during Bush years, AP reports
For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions...
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Doctor, lab owner in Indiana indicted by feds for fraud
A Merrillville physician and the Oakbrook, Ill., operator of a diagnostic laboratory have been indicted with conspiracy to commit health care...
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