Sutter Health settles Medicare Advantage upcoding case for $30 million

Sutter Health was supposedly associated with a training called upcoding, which alludes to the accommodation of mistaken or overstated data about the wellbeing status of a recipient so as to [...]

By |2020-04-13T18:29:42+00:00April 22nd, 2019|

Cardiovascular Associates, P.C. Consents to Pay the United States Over $399,000 to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Improper Billing Practices

Cardiovascular Associates, P.C. has consented to pay $399,230.35 to settle asserts that they submitted false cases to the United States for administrations not rendered. Cardiovascular Associates P.C. is a therapeutic [...]

By |2020-04-13T18:29:59+00:00April 16th, 2019|

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

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 [...]

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

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

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. [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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

Stuart Physician Convicted of 23 Counts of Health Care Fraud

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 [...]

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

Lawyer General Ford Announces Sentencing of Fraudulent Medicaid Provider Business

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 [...]

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