Miami-area Resident Pleads Guilty for His Role in $200 Million Medicare Fraud

A Miami-area resident pleaded has guilty in U.S. District Court in Miami for his role in two separate fraud schemes that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare. How People Arrived Here: alan gumer sentenced,...

Owner of Fraudulent Physical Therapy Company Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Scheme

A Miami-area resident and owner of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., has entered a plea of guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare.

Pharmaceutical Companies Pay $124 Million for False Claims to Medicaid

Mylan Pharmaceuticals, UDL Laboratories, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical have entered into settlement agreements for a total of $124 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act by failing to pay appropriate...

Three Miami-Dade County, Fla., Residents Indicted in Connection with an Alleged $2.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

Three Miami-Dade County, Fla., residents have been indicted in connection with an alleged $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme operated out of X-Press Center, a Detroit-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing injection and infusion therapies....

Harborside Healthcare to Pay $1.375M to Resolve Allegations of Kickbacks And Sham Durable Medical Services

Harborside Healthcare and HHC Nutrition Services will pay the United States $1.375 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the company received kickbacks and assistance under the guise of a sham durable medical equipment (DME) provider. The...

32 Doctors And Health Care Executives Indicted on Charges Related to $16 Million in Alleged False Billing in Houston

32 people have been indicted for schemes to submit more than $16 million in false Medicare claims in the continuing operation of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in Houston. The Strike Force in Houston is the fourth phase of a targeted criminal, civil...

N.Y. State And N.Y. City to Pay Record $540 Million to Settle Allegations of False Claims for Medicaid Funds

In a record federal recovery, the state of New York and New York City have agreed to pay $540 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted, or caused to be submitted, false claims for reimbursement for school-based health care services,...

Jury in L.A. Convicts Equipment Suppliers of Medicare Fraud

A federal jury in Los Angeles has convicted the owners and operators of a Los Angeles-area durable medical equipment company of Medicare fraud. After a one-week trial in federal court in Los Angeles, the jury found Gevork Kartashyan, 45, guilty of conspiracy...

Impatient Evaluation

From the time of his Inauguration, I have been fretting over whether or not our obsession with “Internet speed” would corrupt a fair assessment of Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. Even without the benefit of an Internet platform,...