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NewsHospital exec arrested in $116M Medicare scheme
Officials yesterday arrested and charged an assistant administrator of Houston's Riverside General Hospital for his alleged role in a $116 million Medicare fraud scam, involving false claims for Read more...
Feds' $5.6B fraud collection hits record high
The Obama Administration's fight against fraud reached a milestone this year, as it recovered a record-breaking $5.6 billion in government-wide fraud, the Department of Health & Human Services Read more...
Whistleblower accuses hospital of fraud under false inpatient status
In an unsealed lawsuit this week, a whistleblower accused Wyoming Medical Center of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by altering hospital records. The lawsuit states that records clerks changed Read more...
Feds triple recovered money from Medicaid scams
The federal government has more than tripled the amount of funds it has recovered through Medicaid fraud prosecutions during the past six years, reports USA Today. In 2010, the feds recovered more Read more...
10 Notorious Healthcare Execs in 2011
We expect healthcare executives to set the tone at their organizations and to inspire their teams into becoming the best providers in the region -- or the country. But that's not always how things Read more...
Medicare fraud suspensions not enforced
Although federal agencies have been targeting provider companies in an effort to cease Medicare fraud, regulators oftentimes quickly reinstate licenses after having revoked them, according to an Read more...
Feds recover $1.84B from Medicaid fraud: 5 states top the list
The federal government has recovered more than $1.84 billion from Medicaid fraudsters in fiscal year 2010, according to Office of Inspector General (OIG) data updated this week. The recovery amount Read more...
Healthcare exec swindled Washington, landed heaviest fraud sentence ever
He committed $205 million in Medicare fraud, heading the largest community mental health chain that took advantage of patients with Alzheimer's and severe dementia for services never provided, Read more...
Hospital CEO, lawyer indicted for alleged obstruction, perjury of $188M fraud collection
Federal officials on Monday announced that former chief executive and owner of Chicago's now closed Edgewater Hospital and Medical Center and his lawyer were indicted for allegedly lying and Read more...
Hospital group fined $3.8M for alleged Medicare, Medicaid fraud
Ohio Valley Health Services and Education Corp., parent company of Ohio Valley Medical Center and East Ohio Regional Hospital, will pay $3.8 million in fines to settle allegations of Medicare and Read more...
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