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Nearly 200 people have been charged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care fraud schemes with false claims topping $2.7 billion, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Attorney ...
June 27, 2024 at 3:52 PM. (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department has criminally charged 193 people, including 76 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, with participating in health care ...
Farid Tanios Fata ( Arabic: فريد طانيوس فتى, born 1965) is a Lebanese-born former hematologist / oncologist and the mastermind of one of the largest health care frauds in U.S. history. Fata was the owner of Michigan Hematology-Oncology (MHO), one of the largest cancer practices in Michigan.
Between November 2022 and May 2024, Gehrke and King allegedly submitted more than $900m in false or fraudulent claims to Medicare, commercial insurers, or two other federal healthcare programs ...
Elizabeth Holmes. Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos. [ 2] The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood ...
The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that 3% of the health care industry's expenditures in the United States are due to fraudulent activities, amounting to a cost of about $51 billion. [9] Other estimates attribute as much as 10% of the total healthcare spending in the United States to fraud—about $115 billion annually. [10]
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
Attorney General Loretta Lynch described the arrests as the largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Justice Department. Authorities arrest 243 people in $712 million ...