Lax oversight allows Medicaid fraud to flourish in Miami
In January 2007, Medicare shut down the businesses of 18 medical equipment suppliers in Miami-Dade County after investigators told the federal...
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Florida pediatrician to pay $100,000 for double billing
Attorney General Bill McCollum announced that a Walton County doctor will fully reimburse the Florida Medicaid program after pleading no contest...
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Dentist in Texas indicted by feds for Medicaid fraud
A 24-count indictment charging Dr. David Lloyd Gonzales, Jr., of Pasadena, with health care fraud for allegedly billing Medicaid for services...
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Coalition urges passage of false claims act in Maryland
Creating a state whistleblower law will help protect Maryland’s state-run health programs from fraud by encouraging more citizens to come forward...
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Medical supplier in Florida sentenced to 5 years in prison
An Orlando man accused of running a Medicare fraud scheme in Tampa was sentenced to more than five years in federal...
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Wheelchair supplier faces 15 years in federal prison
If wheelchairs were cars, Michael Cowen was advertising compacts, delivering SUVs and charging the government for the difference. That was the...
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Fla. Medicaid looking to sweep out home-health cheats
State investigators began sweeps this week targeting fraud and abuse in the home healthcare industry in Miami-Dade, aiming to potentially save...
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Kansas heart doc agrees to pay $1.3M for false billing
Joseph P. Galichia, M.D. and Galichia Medical Group P.A., a Kansas cardiologist and his practice group, have agreed to pay the...
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Pharmacist in Ga. helping feds convict other fraudsters
A Loganville pharmacist who admitted to bilking Georgia’s Medicaid program of more than $700,000 by way of bogus prescriptions is aiding...
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25 docs, hospitals in Florida named in false-claims suit
Federal authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into allegations that 25 South Florida doctors and a dozen hospitals engaged in an...
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