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When your doctor prescribes a custom compound medication for you, the last thing you’d expect is they’d get extra cheddar for doing so.
The owner of a Spokane Valley medical supply company will pay almost $225,000 for a kickback scheme to bill Medicare for unnecessary medical equipment, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reported.
A New Orleans man, John M. Spivey, who pled guilty on July 30 to conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud will not be sentenced until April 15, 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
A North Carolina/Tennessee healthcare company has been charged in federal court with Medicare fraud, according to a complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
In a significant move to combat healthcare fraud, the Justice Department, in coordination with the FTC, filed an amended complaint last month against Cerebral, Inc., a telehealth provider, and its executives.
Magellan Diagnostics, Inc., a medical device company out of Billerica, Massachusetts, pled guilty to federal criminal charges in June over accusations that it concealed a malfunction of a device that recorded incorrectly low lead results in tests it provided for tens of thousands of their patients, many of whom were children, according to a Department […]
Daniel Hurt, of Fort Lauderdale, has agreed to pay the government $27 million to settle allegations that he conspired to violate the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare for cancer genomic tests (CGx) that were not necessary, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release.
It’s a crime that costs Americans billions. An offense that endangers lives. And no one is immune from the effects of these unlawful acts– they literally affect each and every one of us. The crime is medical fraud.
Health care can be a polarizing issue in the United States. Annual costs exceed $4.5 trillion, representing over 17% of total U.S. GDP.
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