by admin | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Apparently the patients at a Macon, Georgia, hospital were so desperate to get home that the hospital gave them ambulance rides. Last month Medical Center Navicent Health paid Medicare $2.5 million to settle claims of ambulance fraud because it had billed Medicare...
by admin | Oct 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Is DOJ going to start holding doctors accountable for prescribing expensive and unnecessary home health care? Maybe, if a Houston case is a bellwether. A 62-year old doctor from Houston, Harris County, Texas, may get jail time for home health fraud. DOJ accused...
by admin | Sep 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Thanks to a whistleblower, the makers of the EpiPen will pay the Government $465 million to resolve claims that they falsely classified the drug as generic so that they could decrease the rebates they had to pay to Medicaid. A pharmaceutical company called...
by admin | May 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
On April 25, 2017, DOJ announced that a durable medical equipment (DME) provider would be paying $11.4 million in the face of allegations that it had provided home oxygen equipment to patients without getting a doctor’s approval. The Government also said that Pacific...
by admin | May 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Maryland company wound up paying $10.3 million under the False Claims Act to resolve allegations that it double billed Medicare for splints. According to DOJ, Dynasplint Systems, Inc., was submitting claims for splints for patients who were in skilled nursing...
