Two Miami docs plead guilty to $6.8M Medicare scam
Miami physicians, Carlos Contreras, M.D., and Ramon Pichardo, M.D., each pleaded guilty today to defrauding the Medicare program in connection with...
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Va. provider submitted 1,069 false Medicaid claims
The owner of an Alexandria home health agency that provided respite care and personal care services to Medicaid recipients submitted 1,069...
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Kentucky clinic owner sentenced for false claims
A Corbin man was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty Friday in Franklin County Circuit Court to fraud....
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10 years in Indiana prison for $9M Medicaid scam
Regenerations, an Indianapolis nonprofit, started out small in 2005. That first year, it reported providing psychotherapy for 20 disabled people on...
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Miami clinic manager admits to $14M Medicaid scam
The president of a Miami clinic for patients with human immunodeficiency virus pleaded guilty Tuesday to Medicare fraud, officials said. Dilcia...
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Anti-fraud program saves N.Y. county $2M year to date
Onondaga County’s Medicaid fraud detection efforts saved taxpayers more than $1.8 million in the first seven months of 2008, a memo...
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Editorial urges Congress to expand false claims act
In the 1990s the Justice Department started relying on whistleblowers in private industry to combat health care fraud in the Medicare...
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N.H. ambulance company to pay nearly $1M in fines
A local ambulance company will pay almost $1 million in fines from filing improper Medicare and Medicaid claims. United States Attorney...
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Federal jury convicts Houston doc of wheelchair fraud
A federal jury in Houston has convicted a physician of conspiracy to defraud Medicare of $29 million in a motorized wheelchairs...
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N.J. pharmacist pleads guilty to false billing for drugs
A Piscataway man who owns pharmacies in East Orange and Jersey City pleaded guilty Thursday to overbilling Medicaid by hundreds of...
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