21.04.2009
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Category Healthcare Fraud
OC doctor loses license in sweaty-palm surgery caseOCRegister, CAHealth care fraud costs California more than $15 billion a year and results in each resident paying an extra $500 a year in higher taxes and health insurance premiums, according to the state insurance commission. |
21.04.2009
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Category Healthcare Fraud
Ohio Health Care Worker Indicted on Work Comp Fraud ChargesClaimsJournal.com, CAOhio's attorney general says a former employee of a managed care organization has been indicted in Franklin County on workers' compensation fraud charges. Attorney General Richard Cordray said Christine Lynn Blair, a former employee of Columbus-based ... |
21.04.2009
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Category Healthcare Fraud
US Sen. Grassley: Fraud claims act and fraud enforcementIowaPolitics.com (press release), IABut remember this was a piece of legislation that was originally intended to go after military contract fraud. It's also one of the best tools to get at health care fraud, which is sometimes where the impetus for the crippling amendments is coming from ... |
20.04.2009
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Category Healthcare Fraud
City hosting anti-fraud conference aimed at seniorsHonolulu Advertiser, HIThe city Department of Community Services will co-host an anti-fraud conference Saturday at the Hawaii Convention Center. Healthcare fraud, investment fraud, mail scams, identity theft, and other types of financial exploitation are on the rise and cost ... |
20.04.2009
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Locking down security in the move to electronic medical recordsSearchCIO-Midmarket.com, MAIndeed, medical professionals are historically the largest group of health care fraud perpetrators. As taxpayer money is poured into digitizing medical records, IT professionals must be vigilant in pushing for a layered and comprehensive security ... |
20.04.2009
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Category Healthcare Fraud
Government care would cost a bundleDaily Mail - Charleston, WVGovernment health care is inherently more expensive, because it largely shifts the responsibility for cost-containment from the individual to the government, and because it is so vulnerable to fraud. A decision to adopt government-run health care will ... |
18.04.2009
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Category Healthcare Fraud
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Obama to convene cabinet to cut govt spendingAFPHe noted that they are focusing on ending tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, ending fraud and abuse in the Medicare program that serves the elderly, and reforming the health care system to cut costs for families and businesses. ... |
17.04.2009
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Ohio health care worker indicted on fraud chargesWTOL, OHAP - April 17, 2009 6:05 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's attorney general says a former employee of a managed care organization has been indicted in Franklin County on workers compensation fraud charges. Attorney General Richard Cordray said Friday ... |
16.04.2009
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Category Healthcare Fraud
Woman sentenced for Medicaid fraudNews-Herald.com, OHBy Tracey Read An owner of a Euclid transportation company was sentenced to 18 months behind bars Thursday for committing health care fraud against Medicaid. Kenyatta Ware, co-owner of Euclid-based Ware Care Transportation, pleaded guilty in November ... |
16.04.2009
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Category Healthcare Fraud
US Attorney in Massachusetts: Under Scrutiny and Outta HereWall Street Journal Blogs, NYSullivan, who took the job a week after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, built a well-regarded health care fraud unit. But critics say he could have been more aggressive about prosecuting other kinds of financial fraud. “There's an opportunity to have a ... |