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Home health owners plead guilty to $1M Medicare fraud

Five people connected to a Dallas-area home healthcare company pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health fraud, reports the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The four owners of Alliance Healthcare

Senate to probe Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare, Quest, LabCorp for alleged billion-dollar fraud

Senate members yesterday called for an investigation of possible Medicare and Medicaid fraud between the nation's largest laboratory testing companies and insurers, reports The Fiscal Times. Senate

Administration to target Medicaid fraud next

On par with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) release of the Medicaid final rule yesterday , Vice President Joe Biden and Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen

Healthcare fraud: False Claims Act will get boost from reform

Over the past several weeks, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced several fairly significant False Claims Act (FCA) settlements with healthcare providers, and such settlements could

Fraudulent doctor still practices as ex-partners pay the price

While one doctor who pleaded guilty to 35 counts of federal fraud is still practicing medicine, the doctors and managers who turned him in are paying for an internal investigation, writing off