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1. Roseville Dermatologist Accused Of Billing Patients For Procedures Never Performed –
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1. Medicare Fails To Recover Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Lab Overcharges - “Five years ago, Companion DX Reference Lab hoped to cash in on cutting-edge genetic tests paid for by Medicare.
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1. Houston doctor is eighth person convicted in $13 million healthcare fraud case: A Houston physician was convicted in federal court Wednesday for his role in a $13 million fraudulent Medicare billing scheme involving hundreds of patients-for-hire.
CJ Wolf
A couple weeks ago, Medstar Ambulance Inc. settled False Claims Act allegations with the government for $12.7 million. The allegations were first brought to the attention of the government through a former billing office employee who filed a qui tam (i.e., whistleblower) lawsuit under the False...
CJ Wolf
Most of the time, whistleblowers are employees or someone internal to an organization. In the recent guilty verdict of Dr. Syed Ahmed, a surgeon in New York, it appears from court documents that patient complaints triggered the HHS-OIG and FBI investigations which led to the doctor’s trial.
CJ Wolf
In January of 2012, Collen Herren, former clinical nursing director for specialty clinics at Marshall Medical Center (Placerville, CA), filed a lawsuit (Case 2:12 -cv-00098-JAM-KJN) under the False Claims Act
