Sinking Ship
There is a maritime tradition that involves the captain going down with the ship. In other words, he is responsible for saving his crew, or he will risk his life in the process. The former owner and medical director of a Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
Good Friends
In today’s “Fraud of the Day” article, we take a
look at a patient recruiter from South Florida who referred Medicare
beneficiaries to a now defunct home health care agency, Good Friends Services.
As you might guess, the patient recruiter and the home health agency...
No Drugs Dispensed
A federal jury in Los Angeles, California found a
pharmacy owner guilty for her role in a Medicare fraud scheme involving more than $1.3 million in fraudulent
claims for prescription drugs.
Tamar Tatarian, 39, a Pasadena pharmacy owner, was sentenced to...
Three Times a Charm
A woman in Medford, Mass., admitted to
lying so she could receive $108,288 in Social Security, Medicare and MassHealth
benefits and food stamps over a 10-year period. (SO ambitious!). She was subsequently charged for her Food Stamp, Social Security and Medicare fraud scheme (Three...
Watch Out for DNA Scams
It appears that a new wave of Medicare fraud scams involving
DNA testing has been detected. Whether lured by free ice cream or scared of
potential life-threatening illnesses, senior citizens are being deceptively
convinced to provide their Medicare number in exchange for a cheek swab....
Fraud is Painful
Pain clinics typically provide solutions for
unmanageable pain caused by conditions such as arthritis, back pain, cancer,
migraines and neck pain just to name a few. (When an over-the-counter remedy doesn’t work, these are
the people to contact.) Two pain management doctors in the New...
Paper Pushers
Paper pushers are usually associated with doing
boring or unimportant work. Today, we take a look at two Houston-based
physicians who took paper pushing to a whole new level in totally separate
multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud
schemes. They signed off on fraudulent paperwork that caused the government
healthcare...
Ripe for the Picking
Florida is known for a lot of fun things including
Disney World, the Space Coast, SeaWorld and Miami Beach. Unfortunately, South
Florida is not only known for humidity and alligators, it’s also the nation’s
capital of healthcare fraud. The incidence of healthcare fraud
is so bad...
Hospice Heist
The National Hospice and Palliative Care
Organization reports
that Medicare paid $16.7 billion for 1.43 million beneficiaries in hospice care
during 2016. A decade earlier, Medicare’s costs for hospice care totaled $9.2
billion for less than 1 million beneficiaries. You’re about to take a look at...
Failed Leadership
Common characteristics possessed by great leaders
include honesty, integrity, confidence, and the ability to delegate and empower
others. Today’s fraud article examines the actions of a prominent leader at two
Houston, Texas-based home care businesses. While the former Director of Nursing
and Administration may have been...