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- Pay It Right: Protecting Medicare From Fraud
- Most doctors and health care providers who work with Medicare are honest. There are a few who are not honest. Medicare is working very hard with other government agencies to protect the Medicare program. Medicare fraud happens when Medicare is billed for services people never got. Medicare fraud takes a...
- White papers 2003-04-01
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- Fraud fallout puts the Blues in cross hairs. (Medicare fraud; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois)
- A massive Medicare fraud crackdown will leave Chicago's largest health insurer black and blue for some time, as corporate customers take a more skeptical look at a trusted vendor. Last week's record-setting $144-million Medicare fraud settlement with A massive Medicare fraud crackdown will leave Chicago's largest...
- Research articles 1998-07-20
- U.S. HHS: HHS announces program to reward reports of Medicare fraud
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 June 1998-U.S. HHS: HHS announces program to reward reports of Medicare fraud C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:030698 HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced a new regulation today which will make citizens who alert Medicare of possible acts of fraud and abuse eligible for...
- Research articles 1998-06-04
- Senate Medicare fraud hearings.
- The Senate will spotlight Medicare fraud at upcoming hearings, showing millions wasted on billing claims from crooked doctors, clinics and other "providers." They include operations run by a D.C. cab driver and from addresses at a New York The Senate will spotlight Medicare fraud at...
- Research articles 1998-01-16
- THE WHITE HOUSE: Remarks by the President on Medicare fraud.
- 3 M2 PRESSWIRE-16 December 1998-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Remarks by the President on Medicare fraud C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:071298 12:50 P.M. Room 450 Old Executive Office Building ...
- Research articles 1998-12-16
- Three Columbia/HCA Executives Plead Not Guilty to Medicare-Fraud Charges.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
- FORT MYERS, Fla.--Aug. 20--Three Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. executives, the first to be arrested in a massive federal investigation, pleaded not guilty to charges of Medicare fraud. Jay A. Jarrell, Michael T. Neeb and Robert W. Whiteside are accused of conspiring to...
- Research articles 1997-08-21
- Drug Rep in $3B Procrit Case: "80% of My Sales Were Medicare Fraud"; Carried $400K in "Cash"
- The whistleblower pharmaceutical sales reps in the Procrit case reinstated in a Massachussetts federal court claim that their careers at Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Biotech unit were based mostly on lies. Mark Duxbury and Dean McClennan, both former sales reps at J&J, claim that the bulk of their business selling...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- AARP challenge: become a fraud fighter
- Michigan Chronicle 03-16-1999 AARP challenge: become a fraud fighter By Leila Burney Medicare fraud -- who pays? You pay. Medicare waste, fraud and abuse drain billions of valuable tax dollars from the system, dollars that could be spent on needed benefits for...
- Research articles 1999-03-16
- Hospital settles fraud charges.(Eisenhower Medical Center settles medicare fraud)(Healthcare Financial Advisors)(Brief Article)
- Byline: Mark Taylor Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, Calif., became the fourth hospital to settle in an ongoing federal investigation into Medicare cost-reporting fraud. Eisenhower agreed to pay $8 million to resolve charges that it manipulated cost reports to increase Medicare reimbursement from...
- Research articles 2005-09-05
- Fraud fallout puts the Blues in cross hairs
- PAUL MERRION and ARSENIO OLOROSO JR. A massive Medicare fraud crackdown will leave Chicago's largest health insurer black and blue for some time, as corporate customers take a more skeptical look at a trusted vendor. Last week's record-setting $144-miPAUL MERRION and ARSENIO OLOROSO JR. A...
- Research articles 1998-07-20
- Bethesda, Md., medical supply firm investigates Medicare fraud allegations.
- By James Bernstein, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 24--A billing supervisor in the West Hempstead office of a Maryland-based medical supply company has charged the company with Medicare and other types of fraud that could total as much as...
- Research articles 2004-06-24
- New Jersey Healthcare Consulting Firm to Pay U.S. $2.875 Million to Resolve Allegations of Medicare Fraud
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1- 202-514-1888 WASHINGTON and NEWARK, N.J., March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Besler & Company, Inc., a healthcare consulting firm; and its principal, Philip Besler, have agreed to pay the United States $2.875 million, plus interest, to settle allegations of fraud...
- Research articles 2008-03-05
- CHW faces Medicare fraud charges; Feds allege Sacramento, Calif., hospitals filed false cost reports.(Catholic Healthcare West)(Brief Article)
- Federal prosecutors have accused San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West, one of the nation's most prominent Roman Catholic hospital systems, of defrauding Medicare of millions of dollars by filing false cost reports. The U.S. attorney in Sacramento, Calif., has joined a federal whistleblower lawsuit...
- Research articles 2001-02-19
- CHW resolves fraud suit; System to pay $8.5 million, denies wrongdoing.(Catholic Healthcare West)(Brief Article)
- Maintaining reserve Medicare cost reports has landed another health system in legal trouble, resulting in an $8.5 million Medicare fraud settlement. The U.S. attorney in Sacramento, Calif., announced that Catholic Healthcare West, a 42-hospital system based in San Francisco, and its Sacramento affiliate,...
- Research articles 2002-06-10
- New Jersey Hospital to Pay U.S. $7.5 Million to Resolve Allegations of Medicare Fraud
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, +1-202-514- 1888 TDD WASHINGTON and NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, N.J., has agreed to pay the United States $7.5 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare, the Department of Justice announced today. The settlement resolves allegations...
- Research articles 2007-12-10
- Bush administration's Medicare fraud
- "The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] has been ordered by the Government Accountability Office [GAO] to recover the salary paid former Medicare administrator Thomas A. Scully, because he ordered a staff member to withhold information about the costs of the new Medicare bill from Congress," reported the Medical...
- Research articles 2004-10-04
- Former St. Louis Couple Win $14.4 Million in Medicare Lawsuit.
- By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 26--A former St. Louis couple's accusations of Medicare fraud have garnered them and their Marion, Ill., attorney $14.4 million and cost American General Life Insurance Co. $76 million to settle. ...
- Research articles 2002-06-26
- Owner of Medicare Billing Service Sentenced to 10 Years In Prison For Role in $170 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, April 2, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Miami resident Rita Campos Ramirez, 60, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in a $170 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Assistant Attorney General Alice S....
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- Fresenius Settles Health Fraud Case; Ohio Dialysis Sites Unaffected.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jan. 21--Kidney patients who use Fresenius Medical Care North America's seven Akron-area dialysis centers should not experience any difference in care following the company's record fraud settlement with the federal government, a company official says. The Justice Department said this week that Fresenius Medical...
- Research articles 2000-01-24
- HealthSouth to pay $325M to resolve Medicare fraud allegations
- HealthSouth Corp., a provider of rehabilitative medicine services, has agreed to pay the United States $325 million to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare and other federal healthcare programs.
- Research articles 2005-01-12
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