The $1 billion telemedicine scam that finally caught up with its CEO.
Tag: Medicare
Off to Prison. An Update on How to Almost Make Half a Billion Dollars: The Arizona Wound Graft Fraud
Now that they’ve been sentenced to prison, I can reveal the fate of the healthcare power couple, Alexandra Gehrke and her husband, Jeffrey King, whose wound care graft graft put close to $615,000,000 in their pockets, albeit temporarily.
You Can’t Lipstick That Pig: Why Physicians Must Carefully Vet Deals
Deals involving management services agreements, consulting contracts, or similar structures can appear completely legal at first glance. But dig deeper, and they might turn out to be elaborate covers for kickbacks or bribes.
Did They Sell Their Seoul? The $62+ Million Settlement
There’s a reason why Medicare Advantage is fertile ground for fraud enforcement.
The $4 Million Pee Test Scam: How One Lab Owner Flushed His Future
There are dumb crimes, and then there are crimes so dumb they come with a built-in paper trail leading straight to prison.
How to Almost Make Half a Billion Dollars: The Arizona Wound Graft Fraud
If you thought health care fraud required medical knowledge, think again.
Nudge Triggers a $17 Million False Claims Act Settlement
A fraud by any other name would smell as bad.
Conviction for $70 Million in Fake Medicare Claims Likely Sending Doc to Big House – Medical Group Minute
Although health care fraud doesn’t require the involvement of telemedicine, with advances in telemedicine come “advances” in criminal schemes.
Telehealth Plus Tell a Lie Means Likely End Up in Prison for Telefraud – Podcast
Telehealth can be used to vastly improve patients’ access to medical care. At the same time, it can be used to vastly improve criminals’ access to Medicare dollars. It shouldn’t be that difficult for physicians to assess the bona fides of their proposed participation in a telehealth “business model” when the ones doing the proposing are telemarketers.
Telehealth Plus Tell a Lie Means Likely End Up in Prison for Telefraud – Medical Group Minute
Telehealth can be used to vastly improve patients’ access to medical care. At the same time, it can be used to vastly improve criminals’ access to Medicare dollars. It shouldn’t be that difficult for physicians to assess the bona fides of their proposed participation in a telehealth “business model” when the ones doing the proposing are telemarketers.