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Criminal Convictions And Civil Settlements Announced In Nationwide Telemedicine Fraud Schemes

January 21, 2025

The United States Attorney for the Western District of Michigan announced on November 18, 2024 two criminal convictions and three civil settlements against a second wave of doctors who participated in nationwide telemedicine fraud schemes by ordering medically unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic[...]

North Carolina Physician Found Guilty Of Re-Using Single-Use Medical Device During 1,400 Surgeries

March 20, 2023

Physician Found Guilty Of Re-Using Single-Use Medical Device 1400 times: After a three-week federal jury trial, and 5 hours of jury deliberation, Anita Louise Jackson, 59, was found guilty on charges of adulterating medical devices for use on patients with intent to defraud and mislead, fabricating [...]

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[...]

Kentucky Hospital Settles Unnecessary Stent Claims

February 16, 2014

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced on January 28, 2014 that a Kentucky hospital has agreed to pay the United States $16.5 million to resolve civil claims that it submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and to Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unn[...]

13 Medicare Part B High-Billing Clinicians Responsible For $34M In Overpayments In 2009

December 29, 2013

In a report issued in December 2013 by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), it was reported that 13 Medicare Part B clinicians, each of whom billed Medicare $3 million or more in 2009, were responsible for mor[...]

Tennessee-Based Nursing Home Company To Pay $2.7 Million To Settle False Claims Allegations

March 15, 2013

On March 8, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the Tennessee-based nursing home manager Grace Healthcare LLC and its affiliate Grace Ancillary Services LLC (“Grace”) had agreed on March 4, 2013 to pay $2.7 million, plus interest, to settle the allegations contained[...]

Skilled Nursing Facilities Received $1.5 Billion In Inappropriate Medicare Payments In 2009

November 18, 2012

Earlier this month, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a report entitled “Inappropriate Payments to Skilled Nursing Facilities Cost Medicare More Than a Billion Dollars in 2009.” Skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) rece[...]

Florida Hospice Whistleblower Lawsuit

September 10, 2012

“Hospice” has been defined as a “facility or program designed to provide a caring environment for meeting the physical and emotional needs of the terminally ill.” (Source) Medicare provides hospice care benefits to Medicare beneficiaries who have a terminal illness (a lif[...]

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