Health knowledge made personal
WellPage for Medicaid Fraud
+ Bookmark › Share
Email Digg del.icio.us Reddit icon StumbleUpon Technorati
Go
Search posts:

Medicaid Fraud - Articles

Psychiatric Drugs and Children: Medicaid Fraud Exposed by Duane Sherry, M.S. Patient Expert Posted Wed 06 May 2009 11:59am [at]psychrights.org                                                                                   Massive Medicaid Fraud Exposed: PsychRights Calls on Members of Congress for Assistance...) has exposed massive Medicaid Fraud. While working on PsychRights v. [...] Read on »
Pfizer to pay $2.3 billion in Medicare/Medicaid Fraud by Jason S. Patient Expert 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that Pfizer has agreed to pay a $2.3 billion settlement with CMS over the company’s illegal promotion of its now-withdrawn painkiller, Bextra.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 Read on »
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 Read on »
Medicaid Fraud and the Homeless by Taxingwoman Patient Expert 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 ... Read on »
PsychRights Files for Order Prohibiting State of Alaska from Continuing to Perpetrate Medicaid Fraud by Naturalgal Patient Expert Posted Mon 29 Mar 2010 10:04pm Medicaid Fraud in September of 2008, yet they have continued to flout the law and perpetuate this fraud on the federal government,” said Jim Gottstein, the attorney handling the case..., their employers, and pharmacies. It is Medicaid fraud to cause or submit prescriptions to Medicaid for reimbursement if they are not for a medically accepted indication. PsychRights has Read on »
Medicaid Fraud Case Fails in New York County – Moving Way too Slow by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven 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 Read on »
Orange County Doctor Gives up License – Medicare and Medicaid Billing Fraud by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Tue 07 Apr 2009 11:47pm Tags: Medicare, Medicaid, Fraud, Billing Fraud, healthcare, medical scam ... In southern California, another case of fraud.  Not too long ago there were 3 other senior doctors involved in medication fraud in other states.  It’s strange to see Read on »
Kentucky Hires Ingenix on a 3 Year Contract to Detect Algorithmic Fraud With Medicaid Medical Claims by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Tue 19 Oct 2010 3:15pm is with their algorithms in cutting cost.  When anti fraud contracts as such are awarded, does this also help get subsidiaries as such in the door?  I think that’s a good question as data....    Fraud is a tough battle with healthcare claims as there are sometimes many 3rd parties involved and some of those too are subsidiaries of insurance companies making big Read on »
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. ... 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 Read on »