Feds to require accreditation of equipment suppliers
Federal officials want to crack down nationwide on Medicare fraud by equipment suppliers, particularly in California and Florida. The U.S. Department...
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Home health agency in N.J. charged with $1M fraud
Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced today that three North Jersey residents and a Newark...
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LA health provider to pay feds $4 million for scams
The former owner of a now-defunct West Monroe healthcare company has been ordered to pay the federal government more than $4...
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Florida company helping feds catch Medicare cheaters
Cheating Medicare made some Florida con artists rich. Now it could leave them broke or in prison. Federal agencies are trying...
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Five in South Florida sentenced for Medicare fraud
The owners of five separate Miami-based health care corporations have been sentenced to prison terms today, Assistant Attorney General Alice S....
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Doctors group in Georgia accused hospital of fraud
A group of doctors is suing The Medical Center of Central Georgia and several of their former colleagues, claiming that the...
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Woman accused of stealing aunt’s Medicaid benefits
A Hempstead woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with illegally collecting more than $200,000 in Medicaid benefits that were supposed to...
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Deceptive sales practices rampant in Medicare plans
As many seniors know, Medicare Advantage health insurance is in the midst of its annual enrollment period. From Nov. 15 to...
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Florida therapist charged with false bills to Medicaid
Authorities arrested a therapist at her Fort Lauderdale home Thursday morning for falsifying more than $6,000 worth of claims to Medicaid,...
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Fraud in Medicare program “growing like a cancer”
On July 30th, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson led a delegation of dignitaries to Independence, Mo., where he officially brought Medicare into...
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