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Federal agents swept down on alleged Medicare fraud operations in five cities this morning, charging 94 people with submitting more than $251 million in false claims to the government. Agents executed search warrants and made arrests in Miami, Baton Rouge, Brooklyn, Detroit and Houston. [...]

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The pundits certainly are in overdrive, and proving every day that speed does in fact kill. The ultimate target of this theme, a theme being driven through financial reporters who got F's in their ECON 101 courses, is the privatization of Social Security and Medicare. [...]

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A federal judge in Tampa sentenced Dr. Jeffrey Friedlander and Troy Wubbena to ten years in federal prison for conspiring to defraud Medicare and for [...]

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Federal authorities early Friday charged 94 people with plotting to fleece $251 million from Medicare by filing phony claims with the taxpayer-funded healthcare program. Agents arrested 36 people. [...]

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Move fast | Dig deep Scott was ousted by the board of directors of the hospital company Columbia/HCA for widespread Medicare/Medicaid fraud in 1997. Sure, he?d grown the company by a healthy percentage, but I guess that would be easy if you were defrauding the government. Wouldn?t YOU have money to burn? [...]

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Six people from California are accused of submitting $44-million worth of fraudulent charges to Medicare. The six were part of an Armenian organized crime [...]

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The network's operations represent the largest single Medicare fraud by one criminal enterprise in the programme's history. Federal prosecutors have brought [...]

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Columbus, OH - June 10, 2010 COLUMBUS, Ohio - Thousands of Ohioans enrolled in the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan will soon be receiving $250 checks to help cover the "doughnut hole" coverage gap. Fraudsters are already making calls. [...]

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The owner of four Orange County hospitals is under state and federal investigation for high infection rates that could indicate Medicare fraud or an [...]

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time and a lot more effort,” says Gonzales. The seven suspects face a long list of charges including identity theft, healthcare fraud, and money laundering. [...]

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Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott for saying he refused to testify during a Medicare fraud deposition "to stop the fishing expedition. [...]

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The Nursing Home Complaint Center says, "Medicare and Medicaid fraud in the US costs taxpayers $60 billion per year. A huge chunk of this fraud is related [...]

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The federal government has become involved in a large takedown of five different cities that are being accused of engaging in Medicare fraud. The justice department and some other federal agencies have released a report stating that ninety-four medical professionals within five different cities were charged. [...]

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The addresses were just rented mailboxes. The gang is also suspected of hiring strippers to file fake car-insurance claims. To report Medicare fraud, [...]

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MIAMI - Federal authorities said Friday they are conducting the largest Medicare fraud bust ever in five different states and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million. Several doctors and nurses were among those arres [...]

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Dozens of people alleged to be members of an Armenian-American crime group were charged with what prosecutors said was the country's largest single Medicare [...]

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Federal authorities said Friday they are conducting the largest Medicare fraud bust ever in five different states and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million. [...]

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Federal authorities said Friday they conducted the largest Medicare fraud bust ever and arrested dozens of suspects accused in scams totaling $251 million. [...]

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Medicare Fraud: Almost three-in-four (72%) AARP members say that Medicare fraud is a major problem, and 70% say they are more likely to vote for a candidate [...]

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multi-agency investigation reported 52 arrests on Wednesday, in what the DOJ says is the largest prosecution of a Medicare fraud scheme committed by one [...]

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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and Attorney General of the United States letter to state attorneys general urging them to work with HHS and federal, state, and local law enforcement officials to mount a substantial outreach campaign to educate seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries about how prevent Medicare fraud. [...]

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Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occurred. One professional patient was named in [...]

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Do you suspect Medicare fraud? Are you reluctant to report it? Reporting any type of fraud helps protect yourself, Medicare and millions of others who might be a potential victim. [...]

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Court documents show lists of checks, written for thousands of dollars each as evidence of how the group made fraudulent claims taking Medicare money away [...]

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Elderly Russian immigrants line up to take kickbacks from a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flood in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occur. One professional patient was named in nearly 4,000 false Medicare claims. Feds caution these are only a fraction of the estimated $60 billion to $90 billion in Medicare fraud absorbed by taxpayers each year. [...]