10 Best Places to Find Work from Home Medical Coding and Billing Jobs
One of the most important perks to getting into the medical coding and billing field is the chance of employment from the comfort of home. Billers and coders are ready [...]
Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Health Care Fraud
In court in Central Islip, Hal Abrahamson, a foot doctor with offices in Plainview, Long Island, and Rego Park, Queens, was sentenced by US District judge Denis R. Hurley to [...]
$1.85 Million Paid to Settle Urology Modifier 25 Whistleblower Case
Separately asking routine evaluation and management (E/M) services provided on a similar day as another procedure is usually denied by Medicare. Care providers might typically individually bill E/M services if [...]
Michigan doctor accused of $60M Fraud
An indictment unsealed July ten charges Vasso Godiali, MD, with orchestrating a $60 million care fraud scheme and lavation payoff from the scheme, per the Department of Justice. Dr. Godiali, [...]
DOJ Pursues a Number Of EHR Cases: Five Things For You to Understand
The United States DOJ is initiating direct legal proceedings against Hospitals, Health Care systems, and Medical Technology Corporations for submitting an exhaustive number of false claims to both Medicare and [...]
Los Angeles Doctor Condemned In 33 Million Dollar Fraud Scheme
A United States Federal Jury found Dr. Robert Glazer guilty on June 7th for his primary role during a 33 million dollar fraud scheme concerning requests of Medicare for care [...]
Kansas Doctor Forks Over Almost 6 Million in Settling 3rd False Claims Case in Twenty Years
Joseph P. Galichia MD, the previous owner of the Wichita-based Galichia Medical, after quite some time, reached Fraud Claim Act settlements with the Feds in 2000 and 2009 amounting to [...]
Westside Los Angeles Dentist Being Sent To Prison
A West Los Angeles dental practitioner was sentenced last week to forty months in federal jail for a health-care insurance fraud scheme during which he submitted phony billings for crowns [...]
Florida Physicians and Practice Settle False and Fraudulent Claims Case
Jaime L. Sepulveda, MD, LLC (d/b/a Miami Urogynecology Center), Jaime L. Sepulveda, M.D., and Sujata Yavagal, M.D. (collectively, "Miami Urogynecology Center"), South Miami, Florida, entered into a $173,768.08 settlement agreement [...]
Connecticut Diagnostic Services Provider Settles Case Involving False Claims
On November 19, 2018, Southern Connecticut Vascular Center, LLC (SCVC), Stratford, Connecticut, entered into a $792,076.76 settlement agreement with OIG. The settlement agreement resolves allegations that SCVC submitted claims for Healthcare [...]