Medicare Fraud

It’s good to be wanted, unless you’re on the federal “Most Wanted” list. David Y. Kim, a former chiropractor from Los Angeles, Ca., was definitely wanted, but by the FBI after he went on the lam. (He was on the run because he willingly...

The average U.S. per capita income in 2016 was $57,617 according to the Census; meanwhile, gastroenterologists earned an average of $380,000, per the Medscape Gastroenterologist Compensation Report 2016. Greed is a powerful thing, driving a Texas physician—who presumably earned better than six times a...

It takes chutzpah to try and pull off a $2.2 million Medicare fraud scheme; it takes chutzpah and a big old dose of dumb to do it while you’re awaiting sentencing for another series of Medicare crimes. David Brock Lovelace, a Florida marketing company...

For more than a year, a Pennsylvania physician and medical group billed Medicare thousands of dollars for surgically implanting neurostimulator electrodes – a procedure that typically requires an operating room. Instead, they allegedly performed outpatient Medicare fraud by affixing “P-Stim” acupuncture devices behind the...

A New Jersey physician pleaded guilty in September 2019 in one of the nation’s largest healthcare and Medicare fraud cases to date. Joseph DeCorso admitted that he worked for two so-called telemedicine companies, writing orders for medically unnecessary orthotic braces for Medicare beneficiaries. The beneficiaries...

A Pennsylvania lab owner is pleading guilty to charges around a Medicare fraud scheme that yielded approximately $60 million in reimbursements to his labs in less than a year. Ravitej Reddy paid out-of-state marketing companies to convince thousands of Medicare patients to submit samples...

For people with serious mobility problems, a powered wheelchair can mean the difference between being homebound or having an active lifestyle. But with the price tag for one around thousands of dollars, most people are at the mercy of insurance to pick up the...

It’s one thing to cause taxpayers to pay for services not covered by Medicare; it’s entirely something else for medical providers to visit homebound patients just so they can bill the government for medically unnecessary services. (That’s just wrong.)Today’s “Fraud of the Day” article...

You have to wonder about people who get caught defrauding a healthcare program – and then do it again. That is the case with an Ohio doctor who is serving a 33-month term in federal prison for his role in defrauding Medicare and Medicaid...

Four Los Angeles-area residents went from running healthcare businesses to serving time behind bars for their roles in a healthcare fraud scheme that stole at least $22 million from Medicare. A 43-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man were the owners and operators of Fifth Avenue...