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 Eisenhower
Hospital Pays $8 MEisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California has agreed to pay $8 million to settle allegations it overbilled Medicare by manipulating records to gain a larger reimbursement. The whistleblower lawsuit that initiated the investigation alleged that the hospital kept a second set of books to keep track of the scope of the fraud. >> To read more |
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 Audit
of NY Anti-Fraud EffortsThe Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services has scheduled an audit of New York State's Medicaid fraud prevention efforts to try to find out why the state is recovering so little despite 800 employees devoted to the job, and a fraud-fighting budget of $130 million a year. NY's Medicaid program is projected to cost $44.5 billion this year -- 33% more than that of California which has a population 40% larger. >> To read more |
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 Whistling Past the Graveyard
A FCA lawsuit
filed by the Justice Department in June charges Second Chance
Body Armor Inc. with knowingly selling
defective "bullet proof" vests. The complaint states an
executive at Second Chance said one solution was "to do
nothing" until someone was killed or wounded, or the problems
were publicly exposed by outsiders. The Federal Government
has now allocated $33.6 million to replacing more than 120,000
vests. >>
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