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• Medicare Fraud: You Can Help Prevent, Detect, and Report

  
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  From Baton Rouges Home Instead Senior Care blog.The media is discovering more and more accounts of medicare fraud every week. Right here in Baton Rouge, The Advocate reports that at least 17 people... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Family crime rings

  
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  Family crime rings – There are a lot of family crime rings in the past and present. Crime can be passed down from father to son (mother to daughter too), shared amongst cousins. Keeping it in the family seems to be a successful crime tactic! Family crime rings So lets take quick look at some of those crime rings! ...
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• CMS proposes modest pay bumps for inpatient rehab, skilled nursing facilities

  
  FierceHealthFinance — Authority: 495
  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed rules calling for modest increases in payments for rehabilitation facilities and skilled nursing facilities, as well as a huge boost in awards for reporting Medicare fraud. read more
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• Chemed, Vitas Hospice Services Charged With False Claims To Medicare

  
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  The government’s complaint alleges that Chemed and Vitas Hospice knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for crisis care services that were not necessary, not actually provided, or not performed in accordance with Medicare requirements.WashingtonUnited States Files False Claims Act ...
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• Medicare’s Pay & Chase Phenomenon

  
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  Forget about drug-dealing, Medicare fraud is becoming America’s new get rich quick scheme of choice.  Why? Because it’s easy money, with little threat of prosecution. An article in the Broward Palm Beach New Times explains the crime is so widespread, prosecutors don’t even bother going after anyone unless ...
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• Medicare

  
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  Medicare Continuing our discussion of psychiatric fraud (see our recent newsletter on Medicaid ), we highly recommend an excellent article on Medicare and Medicaid fraud by Chris Parker in the St. Louis Riverfront Times (RFT) (“ Thieves’ Bazaar : Hospitals, doctors and dealers have made Medicare the nation’s ...
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• Proposed Rule Would Increase Rewards to Medicare Fraud Whistleblowers to Nearly $10 Million

  
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  On April 24, 2013, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would increase rewards paid to Medicare beneficiaries and others whose tips about suspected fraud lead to the successful recovery of funds to as high as $9.9 million. Over the last three years, the HHS has ...
  3 weeks ago

• HHS proposes bigger reward for fraud tipsters

  
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  Medicare is dramatically upping the ante on Medicare fraud, increasing the reward for tips leading to the recovery of fraudulently obtained benefits to $9.9 million--up from just $1,000 today. read more
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• Doctors Ask: Is a Charting Error a Federal Crime?

  
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  By Author-Contributor Jane M.  Orient, M.D., http://www.drjaneorient.com/credentials.php __________________________________________________________  As  cardiovascular surgeon John Natale, M.D., sits in federal prison, the Seventh  Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago heard his appeal on April 18. The  ...
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• Detroit-Area Home Health Agency Office Manager Convicted in $5.8 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme www.privateofficer.com

  
  PRIVATE OFFICER NEWS NETWORK — Authority: 155
    WASHINGTON DC April 18 2013 —A federal jury in Detroit today convicted the office manager of a home health agency for her participation in a $5.8 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the ...
  4 weeks ago

• San Fernando Valley Doctor Who Pled Guilty in $3 Million Medicare Fraud Case www.privateofficer.com

  
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    LOS ANGELES CA April 17 2013 —A medical doctor who owns a cosmetic medicine clinic in the Winnetka district of the San Fernando Valley has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for bilking Medicare out of more than $3 million by submitting bills for procedures he never performed. Pezhman Ebrahimzadeh, ...
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