Listen to Mark discuss how a coordinated DHS and DOJ healthcare anti-fraud operation collected $2.6 Billion from 2015 to 2017.
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Hospital Chain Paying More Than a Quarter BILLION Dollars to Resolve False Billing and Kickback Allegations
When my kids were small, we spent many a lazy Sunday afternoon watching monster versus monster movies, you know, like Godzilla versus Mothra. Although today’s post doesn’t feature any Japanese creatures from Monster Island, it does feature a similar, two-monsters-in-one tale, drawing from, and compounding on, violations previously featured on the blog. And, although Tokyo…
A Naive Anti-Kickback Question Answered – Podcast
There’s an expression in carpentry, “measure twice, cut once.” We should have the same expression in terms of healthcare deals…
Far Too “Friendly Physician” to Plead Guilty in $60 Million Healthcare Fraud. Will Murder Charges Follow?
In what’s being reported in the popular press as a $60 million healthcare fraud scheme, a Texas physician, Charles R. Leach, M.D., has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. The feds charged 16 people in the overall scheme. Leach is the fourth defendant to plead guilty. The scheme…
Fraud on Physicians in the ASC Setting
As the shift of surgeries from the hospital setting to the ASC setting accelerates, we’re seeing more fraud at the ASC level. No, I’m not talking about the significant amount of fraud that comes from the “usual suspects,” criminal operators who bill for medically unnecessary procedures, for procedures that never occurred, and so on. Instead,…
HIPAA Security…or Not! – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he discusses HIPAA, naïveté, and why your digitized data probably isn’t as safe as you think it is.
Physician Behind Bars for Referrals: Kickbacks, Bribes, and Mail Fraud
Every new, and every existing, financial relationship with anyone or any entity with which physicians and other healthcare providers do business must be vetted or re-vetted in light of today’s enforcement reality.
Record Bust: 601 Defendants, Including 165 Doctors, Nurses and Other Licensees Charged With Over $2 Billion in Fraud
On Thursday, June 28th, the DOJ and HHS announced the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action.
U.S. Government Intervenes in 5 Kickback Based Whistleblower Cases Against Insys – Success in Motion
Ride along while Mark discusses the expanding case involving Insys Therapeutics and kickbacks paid to induce prescription of its drug, Subsys.
$2.6 Billion Collected by Feds From Compliance Cheats. ROI Makes Warren Buffett Look Like an Amateur. – Medical Group Minute
Watch Mark discuss how the Feds collected $2.6 Billion from 2015 to 2017 as a result of coordinated Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Justice healthcare anti-fraud operations.