1. NJ Doctor Pleads Guilty to $13 Million Telemedicine Fraud Conspiracy - Joseph DeCorso, 62, a New Jersey physician, pleaded guilty for his role in a $13 million fraud scheme. DeCorso admitted that he worked for two purported telemedicine companies and wrote medically unnecessary orders for orthotic braces. DeCorso agreed to pay over $7 million in restitution to the United States, and forfeit assets and property that were traced to he generated as part of the conspiracy.
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2. Hospital Administrator Gets 10 Years in Prison for $16 Million Healthcare Fraud - According to evidence presented at trial, Starsky Bomer, 46, a hospital administrator of Atrium Medical Center and Pristine Healthcare, and his co-conspirators engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting approximately $16 million in false and fraudulent claims for partial hospitalization program services. Bomer was convicted of one count of conspiracy to receive health care kickbacks, two counts of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, and one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.
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3. Deeper Than the Headlines: Post-Acute-Care Transfers Led to Millions in Inappropriate Payments - The OIG recently audited how hospitals have been reimbursed patient discharge status codes. Of the 18,647 claims they reviewed, it was determined that Medicare improperly paid $54.4 million. The review based on a previous audit that identified almost $242 million in overpayments to hospitals that did not comply with Medicare’s post-acute-care transfer policy. As a result, the OIG had some recommendations to CMS (which were agreed to), that will result in recovery of improperly paid funds and future plans to stop the bleeding.
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