The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the award of $9 million in grants to help more than 50 Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) programs fight Medicare fraud. This is part of President Obama's mandate to educate seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries about how to prevent...
Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) President and CEO Mark Merritt issued the following statement today on a provision in the U.S. Senate's small business legislation that would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to work with outside companies to target...
The Associated Press/San Jose Mercury News: A $15 million Medicare fraud case in California has ended as the last of 17 defendants was sentenced this week to 30 months in prison. "The U.S. attorney's office says Medicare patients at board and care homes throughout Southern California were...
The Associated Press: "The government says it recovered $2.5 billion in overpayments for the Medicare trust fund last year as the Obama administration focused attention on fraud enforcement efforts in the health care industry. Investigators have new tools this year to help crack down on health...
as a normal citizen, if i told a pack of lies to gain the things that i wanted, i would either
a) end up in front of a judge
or
b) be avoided by my peers
so my question is, when politicians in the build up to an election, tell us all sorts of lies and make false promises and statements. Why are...
You'll be familiar with the emails we all get asking for a small amount of money in order to secure some Nigerian scammer's 10 MILLION DOLLARS - this is called Advance Fee Fraud or 419 after the Nigerian legal code it contravenes. Looking at organised religion, all of them, they require a...
A Bank of America worker installed*malicious*software on his employer's ATMs that allowed him to make thousands of dollars in*fraudulent*withdrawals, all without*leaving a transaction record, according to federal prosecutors. More »
The Palm Beach Post: To pay for the health reform bill, Medicare fraud is "ripe for plucking, top South Florida prosecutors say." "In 2008, of all the Medicare payouts for home health care services nationwide, over 50 percent were shelled out in Miami-Dade. That was despite the fact that only 2...
So recently i discovered that verizon (cell phone) is charging me a little bit over $1000.00 for two orders of phone replacements that I didn't do. Im so mad and it's just stressing me out. I don't want them to stop my phone for not paying but they told me to get a hold of the fraud department...
The Boston Globe: "President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system. ... Obama's anti-fraud announcement was aimed directly at the political...
The Boston Globe: "President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system. ... Obama's anti-fraud announcement was aimed directly at the political...
The Seattle Post Intelligencer/Everett Herald: "Patients who get written prescriptions will see changes this summer aimed at curbing fraud. Come July 1, prescriptions will be printed on tamper-resistant paper with Mission Impossible-like ink that changes color when rubbed with a finger. They...
NPR: "When it comes to health care fraud, schemes that target Medicare are among the most common and lucrative. That's because the $400 billion federal program is a fat and easy target. The Obama administration ... has requested an increase for an effort to crack down on Medicare fraud. The...
Health care providers with employees who committed Medicare fraud also face consequences. The Memphis Daily News reports that the Eye Specialty Group "can't help but question their decision to turn in a colleague for Medicare fraud. Doing the right thing, they said, has been a costly business...
Jim McCormick promised his ADE-651 wand could identify anything, including bombs, simply by waving it around with the right RFID card inside. Yeah, totally fake, and now he's in prison. Too bad Iraq already spent £85 million on them. Updated.
Literally, the $40,000 (apiece) devices did...
The Bismarck Tribune reports on a new scheme "asking seniors to pay up for not having Part D coverage. The scammers have been calling beneficiaries saying they owe a penalty for not having the Part D prescription drug coverage and that they need to pay the fine right away, said a release from...
The Kansas City Star reports that Missouri led the country in 2008 in efficiency in using federal dollars to combat Medicaid fraud. "The state recovered almost $29.8 million in 2008, the most recent year for which comparative data are available, while receiving about $1.6 million in federal...
Right-wing media have highlighted recent snowfall during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, often suggesting that the winter storm is evidence that climate change is, in Rush Limbaugh's words, "a fraud."source
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