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Office Manager and Wife of Conway Arkansas Doctor Arrested for Medicaid Fraud

By |2020-04-14T05:00:42+00:00November 27th, 2019|

Leslie Rutledge, an Attorney General for the State of Arkansas, announced today that a Conway Optometrist's Officer Manager had been arrested and charged with for defrauding almost $600K from the [...]

Lenox Hill Hospital Pays $12.3 Million Settlement For Submitting Fraudulent Medicare Claims

By |2020-04-14T05:01:35+00:00November 25th, 2019|

The US Attorney for Manhattan, New York, and a Special Agent for the OIG's New York Regional Office, announced today that the US Federal Government has settled a civil fraud [...]

Anesthesia Place in Traverse City Will Now Pay $600K For Falsifying Claims to Medicare

By |2020-04-13T18:06:24+00:00October 15th, 2019|

According to the United States DOJ, Traverse Anesthesia Associates, along with several anesthesiologists are paying over $600K to resolve allegations that they consciously incorrectly submitted certain anesthesia claims to Medicare. [...]

Virginia Beach Psychiatrist Grossly Over-booked Patients as Part of Fraud

By |2020-04-13T18:06:34+00:00September 26th, 2019|

A psychiatrist double, triple and even quadruple overbooked patients at his Virginia Beach practices so as to over bill insurance firms by over $460,000, per court documents. Udaya Shetty, of [...]

Doctor’s Practice to Pay Nearly $180K to Resolve False Claims Act Liability Regarding “P-Stim” Devices

By |2020-04-13T18:06:44+00:00September 24th, 2019|

First Assistant U.S. Lawyer Jennifer Arbittier Williams proclaimed that Richard P. Frey, D.O., and Physicians Alliance Ltd. (“PAL”) have agreed to pay nearly $180,000 to resolve liability underneath the False [...]

The OIG calls out a CA Medical Group for Inaccurate Charges

By |2020-04-13T18:07:08+00:00September 12th, 2019|

Santa Monica, California based Oceanside MedicalGroup did not comply with Medicare necessities when charging for psychotherapy services, in keeping with a report from Health and Human Service's OIG. The Office [...]

Gate City Transportation Sentenced For Health Care Fraud For Over $5 Million

By |2020-04-13T18:07:24+00:00August 19th, 2019|

A Greensboro-based medical transport company was sentenced in court for health care fraud after pleading guilty to one count of health care fraud in October 2018, according to US Attorney [...]