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138 People Charged in $1.4B Health Care Fraud

September 17, 2021December 26, 2022palmbeachfederaldefense

The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 138 people, including 42 medical professionals, for health care fraud that involved about $1.4 billion. The charged schemes include telemedicine fraud, Covid-19 fraud, sober homes cases, opioid distribution fraud, and other “traditional” health care fraud such as fraudulent billing.

The Top 10 “Most Depraved” Fraudulent Schemes in South Florida

November 12, 2018palmbeachfederaldefense

The Sun Sentinel published an article today asking “What is it about South Florida that makes the region such an effective hatchery for scams and schemes?”  Today’s article cites to a 2015 article that calls South Florida the nation’s organized fraud capital,
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DOJ Mishandled Privileged Documents in $1B Fraud Investigation

September 20, 2018palmbeachfederaldefense

In what Justice Department officials — along with South Florida’s U.S. attorney, the FBI, and Health and Human Services agents — have described as the nation’s biggest Medicare fraud case, federal prosecutors have lost a major battle as a judge threw out
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Bill Seeks to Eliminate Kickbacks that Exploit Recovering Addicts

September 20, 2018December 26, 2022palmbeachfederaldefense

Sen. Marco Rubio announced last week that he is preparing to introduce a bill to Congress that would prohibit middleman drug addiction call centers from making money off of patient referrals to rehabilitation services (i.e., “patient brokering”) without verifying that the treatment
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National Health Care Fraud Takedown Charges 124 in South Florida

September 20, 2018palmbeachfederaldefense

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar III, announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed
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