Wife accuses bar-code inventor of cheating her out of assets: suit

The wife of a Long Island genius who invented supermarket self-checkout lanes has accused him of giving away $80 million of their money — including $6 million to his mistresses — to keep it out of her hands.But Jerome Swartz, 75, says that while he may Read More …

Casey Kasem’s end-of-life drama: a lesson for the rest of us

The dysfunction and drama of the final months of Casey Kasem, a radio personality who died Sunday from complications of dementia, captured the interest of generations who listened over the years as he counted down the nation’s top pop. But what Kasem did for four 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 …

Rich New Yorkers Face a Nasty Estate Tax Surprise

If you’re a New York multimillionaire, you now have another incentive to stay alive.A change this month in New York’s estate tax, which was billed as tax relief for the wealthy, contains a hidden wrinkle that could leave some multimillionaires with a much bigger surprise Read More …

Medicare Seniors Like ObamaCare’s Team Approach

As the U.S. health care system moves away from fee-for-service medicine to more accountable care that uses a team of health professionals, seniors covered by Medicare say they are okay with these new models that include nurses, social workers and other allied health professionals in the Read More …