Three Detroit-Area Residents Plead Guilty to $4.2m Medicare Fraud

Jackson, Mich., resident Terrence Hicks and Detroit residents Muhammed Al Mahdi and John Saunders have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan this week for their roles in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme. Hicks,...

Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Los Angeles Charges 20 in Health Care Fraud Cases

Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven cases for allegedly participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in more than $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program.

HIV Infusion Clinic Administrator Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Health Care Fraud

Miami resident Aisa Perera, 42, was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for her role in an $11 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander...

Three Miami Area Doctors And Six Others Charged in $56 Million Health Care Fraud Schemes

Three Miami area doctors and six others have been charged in four separate indictments for their roles in HIV infusion fraud schemes totaling $56 million, the Department of Justice Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District...

Strike Force Targets Medicare Fraud By Los Angeles Area Health Care Companies

Eleven people have been indicted in the second phase of a targeted criminal, civil and administrative effort against individuals and health care companies that fraudulently bill the Medicare program, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division...

New Orleans Hospital Pays $1.75 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Touro Infirmary, a New Orleans Hospital, has agreed to pay the United States $1.75 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to the Medicare program, the Department of Justice has announced. How People Arrived Here: touro infirmary...

Florida Radiologist to Pay U.S. $7 Million to Resolve Fraud Claims

A board-certified radiologist, Fred Steinberg, M.D., his imaging centers and related entities in Palm Beach County, Fla., have reached a settlement with the United States to resolve allegations of health care fraud, the Justice Department announced today....