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Large Hospitalist Company Charged With Medicare False Billings Scheme

June 22, 2014

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on June 17, 2014 that it is intervening in a federal whistleblower lawsuit (qui tam lawsuit) alleging that a large California-based hospitalist company that employs 2,500 hospitalists (physicians who work only in hospitals and other long-term care facilitie[...]

Incentive Payments For Transition To Electronic Health Records: Is Medicare Being Defrauded?

December 15, 2012

In an effort to provide incentives to physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers to transition from paper health care records to electronic health care records, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation in 2009 as part of the economic stimulus package to give physicians grants (money tha[...]

GAO Report On Medicare Fraud

December 1, 2012

On November 28, 2012, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) filed a report with the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Health Subcommittee regarding Medicare fraud in the United States. The GAO reported that 37% of all successful Medicare fraud prosecut[...]

Texas Medicare Fraud Scheme Results In Long Prison Sentences

November 6, 2012

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that two Texas men have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their alleged participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving durable medical equipment (“DME”). The manager and driver for a Houston, Texas DME company received prison se[...]

$429.2 Million In Fraudulent Medicare Billings: 91 People Charged

October 5, 2012

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 4, 2012 that 91 nurses, physicians, and other medical providers in seven U.S. cities (listed below) have been criminally charged for alleged false billings to Medicare that totaled $429.2 million (more than $230 million in home health care fraud[...]

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Large Hospitalist Company Charged With Medicare False Billings Scheme

Incentive Payments For Transition To Electronic Health Records: Is Medicare Being Defrauded?

GAO Report On Medicare Fraud

Texas Medicare Fraud Scheme Results In Long Prison Sentences

$429.2 Million In Fraudulent Medicare Billings: 91 People Charged

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