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It is Always a Bad Idea For a Doctor To.

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law In my 30 plus years of practice representing physicians, dentists, nurses and psychotherapists, I have defended clients involved in many different situations. Several of these seem to be problem areas which we see repeatedly. Following is a list of those problems which it would seem to be common sense for a physician or other health care professional to avoid doing.

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DOJ and OIG Use Complex Data Analysis To Find Medicare Fraudsters

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By Miles O. Indest, J.D./M.B.A.; Law Clerk, The Health Law Firm Since the 1990s, the credit-card industry has successfully used predictive analytics to find suspicious patterns and protect consumers from fraudulent charges. The health care industry has found a similar success in recent years, as federal agents use data mining, predictive analytics, and other modeling approaches to catch Medicare fraud.