Becker's Healthcare January 17, 2025
Here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases that Becker’s has reported since Dec. 27:
1. A Texas physician was sentenced to 10 years in prison for causing the submission of more than $70 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic tests ordered through a telemarketing scheme.
2. The former CEO of a Little River Healthcare in Rockdale, Texas, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for his role in conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute.
3. A pharmacy in Camden, N.J., agreed to pay $625,000 to settle allegations of billing Medicare and Medicaid for medications that were never dispensed.
4. A physician from Edinburg, Texas and his son pleaded...
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