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Medicaid Fraud - Articles
Pfizer to pay $2.3 billion in Medicare/Medicaid Fraud
by
Jason S.
Posted
Wed 02 Sep 2009 5:40pm
that Pfizer has agreed to pay a $2.3 billion settlement with CMS over the company’s illegal promotion of its now-withdrawn painkiller, Bextra.
“ Marketing fraud cases against pharmaceutical companies have become almost routine, with almost every major drug maker having been accused of giving kickbacks to doctors or shortchanging the Medicaid program on prices
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Texas Medicaid Fraud
by
HealthCare
Posted
Fri 25 Sep 2009 3:30pm
Oops! More kickbacks for health officials have landed Texan health officials in some serious hot water. What is important about this case, as with all fraud cases... antipsychotic prescribed to low-income Texans, the state alleges in a new filing in an ongoing fraud lawsuit filed in 2006, according to The Dallas Morning News
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Medicaid Fraud and the Homeless
by
Taxingwoman
Posted
Tue 27 Jan 2009 6:21pm
Read about it here.
For profit hospitals in The U.S. , sending recruiters out to bring homeless people to the hospital for bogus or minor treatment . Some of the treatments even made healthy people sick. This scam sucked millions from the government medicare system.
So many who can't get medical care and hospitals are stealing money ...
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Medicaid Fraud Case Fails in New York County – Moving Way too Slow
by
Medical Quack

Posted
Sun 22 Nov 2009 10:01pm
the program in 2008 to audit providers on their own.
Medicaid fraud demo program falters in Orange | recordonline.com
Technorati Tags: Ingenix, United HealthCare, health insurance... an estimated $2 million per year misspent in the single largest expense in the county budget, Medicaid.
By this time, county officials planned to have audited 25 businesses
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Medicaid, Medicare Make Easy Marks for Fraud
by
HealthCare
Posted
Mon 19 Oct 2009 10:07pm
' thoughts on Medicaid and Medicare fraud on his original post here.
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Greg Burns of the Chicago Tribune writes that in a troubled economy, cheating Medicare and Medicaid just might be the easiest money anywhere. Recent reports about violent
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