Ambulette Companies: Logistics Care and Medicaid Fraud Investigations

Medicaid and Medicare are government programs funded to aid elderly and disabled people, but it has been increasingly abused by people, providers, and professionals. Health care fraud is not only affecting the economy by increasing our national debt, but it is also harming individuals who Read More …

Receiving A Medicaid Fraud Letter… What Should I Do?

What is Medicaid? Medicaid is a federal and state health coverage program that provides health care to people who are unable to pay for it themselves. It is offered free of charge to those who meet the strict eligibility requirements. The Medicaid Fraud Investigation Process Read More …

NY nursing home workers face charges stemming from resident death

Nine employees of a troubled New York nursing home, including the top administrator, were indicted on Thursday on charges stemming from the death of a resident whose distress alarms went unheeded for hours. The company running the Medford Multicare Center for Living was indicted as Read More …

Insurance Company Cheated Medicare Out of $1 Billion, Says Lawsuit

Josh Valdez took an executive level job in April 2010 expecting to improve medical services at two Puerto Rican Medicare Advantage health plans owned by a subsidiary of New Jersey company: Aveta Inc. But a few months after coming on board, the former government health Read More …

Some Doctors Always Charge Medicare for the Most Expensive Office Visit

A joint investigation by ProPublica and the I-Team found hundreds of New York and New Jersey doctors who have billed Medicare exclusively for the most expensive type of office visit – even though most of their peers rarely charge the top rate. Under Medicare billing Read More …

Bronx criminal enterprise preys on HIV victims to exploit $16M of Medicaid funds

Raheel Pervez and his accomplices scraped in their dirty money by paying off hundreds of HIV patients not to fill their prescriptions, all the while billing the social health care program for millions, according to prosecutors A Bronx pharmacist is facing up to 25 years Read More …

Firm Picked to Run LICH Paid $95M to Settle Medicare Fraud Suit

The company selected to run the proposed new Long Island College Hospital paid nearly $100 million in fines to the feds to settle accusations it systematically defrauded the U.S. health care system for nearly 15 years, DNAinfo New York has learned. The U.S. Justice Department Read More …

State’s Medicaid program paid cheating dentists for questionable billings: report

A new federal report will be released Wednesday showing that shady dentists and orthodontists billed the state’s Medicaid program for questionable procedures on children. One dentist claimed to have provided one child 42 tooth fillings in a single visit. The state’s Medicaid program paid through Read More …