Tag: fraud
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Noted heart surgeon found guilty of health care fraud; exaggerated patient conditions to get Medicare payments
Dr. Richard Paulus (Ashland Independent photo) In the latest judgment of health-care fraud in Kentucky, a well-respected cardiologist in Ashland was found guilty last week of performing unnecessary heart procedures...
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Kindred agrees to pay $125 million for Medicare fraud claims against subsidiaries it bought after most wrongdoing occurred
Louisville-based Kindred Healthcare Inc. has agreed to pay $125 million to settle federal allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy, according to a U.S. Department...
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Three doctors, nine others in western half of Kentucky are indicted in the largest-ever federal ‘takedown’ of Medicaid fraud
Former Dr. Fred Gott of Bowling Green was arrested.(Photo: Miranda Pederson, Bowling Green Daily News) Twelve people in the western half of Kentucky, including three doctors, have been charged with Medicaid...
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Scammers taking advantage of new health-insurance system
Scammers are using the new health-insurance system “as an opportunity to try to collect consumers’ personal information or to make false claims,” Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway...
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Here are the seven factors driving health care cost increases
Escalating health care costs are everybody’s problem and no one entity’s fault. Julie Appleby at Kaiser Health News reports that the United States spends about18 percent of its gross domestic...
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Chiropractic clinic to pay $650K for Medicaid and Medicare fraud
A chiropractic clinic in Williamsburg will pay $650,000 to settle claims it improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid, reports Trent Knuckles for The News Journal of Corbin. (News Journal graphic) Ho...
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Two bills would encourage, protect whistleblowers
Two proposed bills would serve to crack down on fraudulent health care claims and make it easier for employees to blow the whistle on illegal activity. State Sen. Tom Jensen,...