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Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

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Published on Wed Oct 10, 2012

Medicare Fraudsters Put On NoticeIn one of the biggest takedowns in Medicare history 91 individuals were charged with "participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $429.2 million in false billing," Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in an October 4 Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs press release. This came as a result of Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in seven cities.The indictments were unsealed across the country charging "more than $230 million in home health care fraud; more than $100 million in mental health care fraud and more than $49 million in ambulance transportation fraud; and millions more in other frauds," according to the release. The joint Department of Justice and HHS Medicare Fraud Strike Force is a multi-agency team of federal, state and local investigators and prosecutors in which agents from the FBI, HHS-OIG, multiple Medicaid Fraud Control Units, [...]
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