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FBI Says Home Care Fraud Investigations Are On The Rise

Published on Tue Jan 18, 2011

Home care fraud investigations are on the rise, increasing your chances of getting caught up in the authorities' dragnet. Nationwide, health care fraud investigations are growing, the FBI warns in a release. And in Minnesota, "the U.S. Attorney's Office is also participating in a task force with the Minnesota Attorney General Office's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that focuses on home health care fraud," the FBI says. The task force includes the FBI, HHS Office of Inspector General, the IRS, and other law enforcement partners. Case in point: On Feb. 9, Patrick Daniel Osei, owner of a Brooklyn Park, Minn. home health care agency called Advance Home Health, was sentenced to more than five years in prison for defrauding Medicaid, according to the release. Osei had pled guilty to offering and paying a cash kickback for referrals. Osei also admitted to billing Medicaid for services not provided, the FBI says. Another [...]
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