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Lee County Ambulance Service and its Director Agree to Pay $253,930 to Resolve Allegations of False Claims to Medicare

By |2020-04-13T18:09:55+00:00April 8th, 2019|

The Lee County Fiscal Court ("Lee County") and the previous executive of its emergency vehicle administration, Joseph Broadwell, have consented to determine common charges that Lee County Ambulance abused the [...]

CareWell Urgent Care Center Agrees to Pay $2 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Billing of Government Health Care Programs

By |2020-04-13T18:10:04+00:00April 2nd, 2019|

The United States Attorney's Office reported today that CareWell Urgent Care Centers of MA, P.C., CareWell Urgent Care of Rhode Island, P.C., and Urgent Care Centers of New England Inc. [...]

At A Glance: Medicaid Fraud Control Units Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report

By |2020-04-13T18:10:12+00:00March 26th, 2019|

Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs or Units) research and arraign Medicaid supplier extortion and patient maltreatment or disregard. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General is [...]

Stuart Physician Convicted of 23 Counts of Health Care Fraud

By |2020-04-13T18:10:31+00:00February 21st, 2019|

Sheetal Kanar Kumar, M.D., 48, in the past of Stuart, Florida, was discovered blameworthy by a jury of submitting twenty-three tallies of social insurance misrepresentation (Case No. 18-14063-CR-Marra). Dr. Kumar [...]

Lawyer General Ford Announces Sentencing of Fraudulent Medicaid Provider Business

By |2020-04-13T18:10:45+00:00February 15th, 2019|

Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Passage declared that Moving Forward Counseling Solutions, LLC (Moving Forward), a Medicaid supplier business based out of Las Vegas, was condemned for Medicaid extortion. The [...]

Tree Based Physicians Group and Neurologist Agree to Pay Almost One Million Dollars to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

By |2020-04-13T18:10:55+00:00February 14th, 2019|

Jefferson Medical Associates, a now broke down, multi-strength restorative practice bunch in Laurel, and Dr. Aremmia Tanious, have consented to pay the United States $817,635.06 to determine asserts under the [...]

Electronic Health Records Vendor to Pay $57.25 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

By |2020-04-13T18:11:17+00:00February 8th, 2019|

Greenway Health LLC (Greenway), a Tampa, Florida-based designer of electronic wellbeing records (EHR) programming, will pay $57.25 million to determine charges in a grumbling documented by the United States under [...]

Lake County eye specialists consent to $157K installment to settle Medicare charging claims

By |2020-04-13T18:11:27+00:00February 6th, 2019|

Two Lake County ophthalmologists have consented to a six-figure installment for inappropriately charging Medicare for eyelid fix medical procedures, the U.S. Lawyer's Office said Tuesday. Specialists Craig D. Fishman and [...]