Sunday, July 18, 2010

Feds Charge 94 Docs, Others With Medicare Fraud from MedPage Today

By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today

Charges have been unsealed against 94 physicians, healthcare and billing company executives, and others in five cities across the country, alleging that they submitted a total of $251 million in false Medicare claims.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the indictments at a meeting on Medicare fraud in Miami, calling it "the largest federal healthcare fraud takedown since the Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations began in 2007."
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