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Miami Medicare Fraud Fugitive Returns After Hiding in Cuba

The Health Law Firm

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On Friday, a Miami pharmacy owner charged in a Medicare fraud scheme, surrendered to US authorities after hiding in Cuba for over two years. Sandy De La Fe, was charged in 2013 with unlawfully pocketing $2.8 Indest III, J.D., False Claims for Prescription Drugs.

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Safeguarding Against Medical Identity Theft Training

American Medical Compliance

When someone uses your personal information, such as your name, Social Security number, or Medicare number, to make false claims to Medicare and other health insurers without your consent, it is known as medical identity theft. This type of theft is just one example of healthcare fraud. trillion in 2015.

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Eye Specialist Fined $907,074.64 for Medically Unnecessary Treatments

Med-Net Compliance

to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid. The ophthalmologist was identified by HHS-OIG as one of the top outliers for billing the Medicare program across all medical specialists in West Virginia, far exceeding the average of Medicare claims submitted by his peers.

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Supreme Court Ruling Narrows Reach of Identity Theft Law

HIPAA Journal

In 2013, David Dubin was examining a patient when he was informed by his father that the patient’s Medicaid benefits had been exhausted and cut the evaluation short. Under the letter of the law, small-scale fraud and large-scale fraud carry the same sentence for aggravated identity theft.

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U.S. Court in Michigan Denies Motion to Suppress Evidence in Medicare Fraud Case

The Health Law Firm

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health On February 3, 2016, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan denied a motion to suppress all evidence of health care fraud seized by the government pursuant to a search warrant of Naseem Minhas’s home health care agency. in December 2013. Indest III, J.D.,

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Florida Therapy Staffing Company Owner and Patient Recruiter Plead Guilty to $7 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

The Health Law Firm

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law A therapy staffing company owner and a patient recruiter pleaded guilty on August 21, 2013, to one count each of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in connection with a $7 million Medicare fraud scheme. Indest III, J.D.,

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Home Health Care Company’s Patient Recruiter Sentenced to More Than Three Years in Prison for Medicare Fraud Scheme

The Health Law Firm

A Miami patient recruiter will spend the next 37 months in prison for his part in a $20 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Manuel Lozano was sentenced on May 6, 2013, in the Southern District of Florida. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law.

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