Detroit Area Home HealthCare Agency Co-owner Sentenced to 96 Months
The co-owner of a Detroit home health care company was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme that caused approximately $33 million [...]
Medical Device Maker Biocompatibles Pleads Guilty to Misbranding and Agrees to Pay 36 Million
Pennsylvania-based medical device manufacturer Biocompatibles Inc., a subsidiary of BTG plc, pleaded guilty today to misbranding its embolic device LC Bead and will pay more than $36 million to resolve [...]
Man Stealing Funds from SSA Pleads Guilty
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced the guilty plea today of a man who was previously charged with stealing funds from the Social Security Administration. [...]
Former Dental Clinic Owners Indicted for $1 Million Health Care Tax Fraud
Original Article here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/former-dental-clinic-owners-indicted-1-million-health-care-payroll-tax-fraud SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that Marshfield, Mo., husband and wife have been indicted by [...]
Medicare announces new RAC contracts
This week, CMS announced five new contracts for Medicare’s recovery audit contractor (RAC) program. CMS states the new contracts were designed to reduce provider burden, enhance program oversight, and increase [...]
UConn Health Center owes $184,984 to US Government for overbilling allegations settlement
Deirdre M. Daly, US Attorney for Connecticut, today released that the UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER ("UConn Health") has settled with the US Government through which it will pay $184, [...]
Springfield man gets year in prison for health care fraud
Michael A. Tucker, 47, was sentenced to one year and a day in prison, as well as ordered to pay more than $50,000 in restitution fines, after he admitted to [...]
Medicare’s ICD-10-CM Grace Period ENDS in only 5 weeks…
After Oct. 1st, your currently paid claims can suddenly turn into denials After the ICD-10-CM transitional grace period, Medicare will no longer pay claims with diagnosis codes that are CLOSE [...]
UMC, and the estate of a late doctor, deny fraud allegations and agree to pay $3.3 million settlement
Physicians at UMC, as well as the estate of a Lubbock doctor killed in a plane crash last February, have agreed to pay a $3.3 million settlement to the federal and [...]
Medical Billing Codes Key to Fraud Case Against 2 Erie Oral Surgeons
John F. Lehrian, who is retired, and David E. Palo, of what was known as Lehrian & Palo Oral Surgery, 100 State St., pleaded not guilty to federal charges that [...]