"Nationwide Healthcare Lawyers"
(August 31, 2010): Last week, department heads of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), met in Los Angeles, CA and conducted the second of a planned series of “Regional Health Care Fraud Prevention Summits.” Following-up on a similar conference held in Miami, DOJ Attorney General Eric […]
DOJ is Using Medicare Billing Data to Target Health Care Providers Read More »
(August 27, 2010): Additional cities will be getting Medicare fraud HEAT teams. Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder and U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conducted the second of a planned series of “Regional Health Care Fraud Prevention Summits.” In addition to these agency heads, participants learned of current and
Additional Cities will have HEAT Teams in 2011 Read More »
(July 11, 2024): Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it has criminally charged 193 defendants with violations of various health care fraud statutes. The government estimates that the fraudulent schemes employed by the defendants resulted in losses of $1.6 billion to Federal, State, and private payor health care programs. These cases are