Healthicity Blog

Nick Merkin, CEO of Compliagent, chatted with me from his home in sunny California about compliance from an attorney’s perspective. Merkin, a lawyer by training, spent the first ten years of his career in healthcare law, primarily in litigation defense. So he knows a thing or two about how to keep...

1. Houston-Area Registered Nurse Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud Medicare of More than $5 Million:

At the end of 2016 I posted a blog about the unsealing of an indictment of 21 individuals allegedly involved in a $40 million bribe and kickback scheme involving Forest Park Medical Center Dallas (FPMC).

1. California Clinic Owner Sentenced to 63 Months in Prison for Role in Occupational Therapy Fraud Scheme -

Cell phones, cell phones, we love them and love to hate them.

Last week, the OIG posted a report of their Medicare Compliance Review of the University of Florida Health Jacksonville Hospital. This is the most recent of many similar reports.

Here, Ye, Here, Ye.

We’ve got a big announcement and we know that you’ll be just as excited about it as we are.

1. MEDICARE FRAUD TRIAL SET FOR DOCTOR TIED TO MENENDEZ PROBE-WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - “Many of the Medicare fraud charges against prominent Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen are complicated, but one is simple