Ohio Cardiologist Found Guilty Of Medicare Fraud
October 4, 2015
On September 25, 2015, a federal jury in Ohio found an Ohio cardiologist guilty of a Medicare fraud scheme, after a four-week trial and more than a day of jury deliberations. The Ohio cardiologist was found guilty of performing unnecessary cardiac catheterizations, tests, stent insertions, and cau[...]
Continue Reading
Two Maryland Physicians Convicted Of $2.5M Health Care Fraud
September 15, 2015
On September 4, 2015, a federal jury in Maryland convicted two Maryland physicians, who are husband and wife, of health care fraud arising out of their ownership and operation of a pain management clinic, after an eight-day trial. The alleged health care fraud involving federal health benefit prog[...]
Continue Reading
Perpetrators Of $56M Medicare Fraud Scheme Plead Guilty
December 22, 2014
On December 17, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs announced that the mastermind of a $56 million Medicare fraud scheme and his physician-accomplice have pleaded guilty in the federal court in Louisiana to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to falsify r[...]
Continue Reading
Is This The Largest Case Of Medicare Fraud Ever?
December 2, 2012
A Denver, Colorado-based company called DaVita Inc. (“DaVita”) is a $7 billion company and one of the largest dialysis companies in the United States, with about 2,000 dialysis centers located throughout the United States. DaVita recently moved into its own office tower in Denver that r[...]
Continue Reading
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[...]
Continue Reading
