State Medicaid fraud units recovered $1.1B last year
Medicaid Fraud Control Units in fiscal year 2007 recovered more than $1.1 billion for federal and state governments, the Department of...
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Miss. woman ordered to prison for Medicaid fraud
A 57-year-old Pineville woman has been sentenced to 20 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Frank J. Polozola for...
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Penn. couple accused of filing false Medicaid claims
A husband and wife, one a nurse, the other a nurse’s aide, were charged by the state Attorney General’s Office Friday...
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Medical Fraud a Growing Problem
All it took to bilk the federal government out of $105 million was a laptop computer. From her Mediterranean-style townhouse, a...
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New York considering licensing home health aides
The state attorney general proposed a public registry of home care health aids Wednesday, after an investigation found widespread fraud in...
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Medicare audits put medical providers on defense
After 18 months, three levels of appeals and $150,000 in legal expenses, doctors with Premier Medical Group in Clarksville can breathe...
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Calif. medical provider charged in $12M billing scam
This morning, special agents with the FBI and IRS-Criminal Investigation arrested the operator of Wescove Home Health Services at her home...
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Walgreens to pay feds $35M to settle drug switching
Walgreen Co agreed to pay $35 million to settle claims it improperly switched patients to more expensive versions of three drugs...
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Five years in jail $100K fine for New York eye doctor
A former Meiers Corners ophthalmologist got the bill yesterday for performing unnecessary eye surgeries and bilking Medicare of $1 million. U.S....
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Two providers in Missouri jailed for defrauding Medicaid
Two St. Louis residents, Gwendolyn Silvers and Chante Hayes, were each sentenced to 51 months in prison on multiple fraud charges...
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