by admin | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Thanks to three whistleblowers, St. Joseph Hospice and its majority owner are forking over $5,867.518 to the federal and state governments to settle allegations that the hospice’s thirteen facilities overbilled Medicare and Medicaid. According to the Department...
by admin | Jul 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Only a paranoid person would think that his doctor is picking his medicine, or recommending a hospital or nursing home, because the doctor is being paid under the table, right? Your doctor really thinks you NEED this medicine, right? And that the rehab hospital...
by admin | Jul 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
U.S. taxpayers are doling out mega-dollars for lab tests. The Office of Inspector General estimated that Medicare spent $8.2 billion on lab tests in just the year 2010, which amounted to a whopping 3% of everything Medicare spent that year. As if those numbers were...
by admin | Jul 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Letting a home health agency decide whether patients need home health care is like asking your kid, “Do you think you need some candy?” You can pretty much tell what the answer is going to be before you get the question out of your mouth. Fraud in the home...
by admin | Jul 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
An Indiana hospital played tried to play “hide the surgery” from the Government, but the Government won. According to a DOJ press release, Community Health Network (ACHN) of Indiana claimed that surgeries were being performed at the hospital, when actually...
