Home Health & Hospice Week

HEAT Force Arrests 94

When the Medicare Fraud Strike Force has a big day, it has a very big day. On July 16, the Department of Justice-Health and Human Services Medicare Fraud Strike Force charged 94 people for allegedly participating in different schemes to bill more than $250 million in false claims to Medicare carriers. The defendants span across five different states (Florida, Louisiana, New York, Michigan, and Texas), and were involved in various fraudulent schemes against the Medicare program, the DOJ says in a release. For instance, practitioners in Miami were accused of fraudulently billing for physical therapy, home health care, and HIV infusion services. A Florida medical biller is charged with billing $49 million for fraudulent services. Home health agency people were arrested in Miami and Detroit and durable medical equipment people were arrested in Baton Rouge, La., Houston, and Brooklyn, according to the DOJ. Even Medicare patients were under the microscope, [...]
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