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Medicaid Fraud - NEWS
CRACKDOWN IN HOUSTON
33 indicted in Medicaid fraud
probe. Local health-care firms are accused of overbilling or submitting
false claims for supplies. A Harris County grand jury handed up
indictments this week against the owners and employees at 32 health-care
companies, following a sweeping probe of Medicaid fraud in the Houston
area.
More than 30 people have been charged with Medicaid fraud after
allegedly getting $7.7 million in reimbursement for medical supplies
through inflated billing or false claims from unwitting patients, Texas
Attorney General Greg Abbott said Thursday.
Two Upstate men have been indicted on charges of Medicaid fraud.
Dr. Robert Cox of Anderson and
Gerrish Smith, of 530 Battleground Road, Chesnee, have been charged with
one count of felony conspiracy and 29 counts of filing a false claim to
Medicaid, said Mark Plowden, spokesman for S.C. Attorney General Henry
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The indictments, signed by the McMaster,
allege that Cox and Smith knowingly conspired to file false
reimbursements to Medicaid sometime between 2000 and 2004.
The felony conspiracy charge carries a maximum of five years in prison
and a $5,000 fine. The charge of filing a false claim carries up to
three years in prison and a $1,000 fine on each count.
If you have
been charged with Medicaid Fraud
or any other Health Care Fraud you
need to contact a Health
Care/Medicaid Fraud Lawyer.
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In the second week of November,
officials from Onondaga County, N.Y.,
compelled 100 Medicaid recipients
to obtain documentation from their physicians to justify frequent
narcotics prescriptions.
The county, which includes the city of Syracuse, will pay about $90
million in Medicaid costs this year. Officials used business
intelligence and analytics tools to identify cases where the
prescription totals indicated that patients might be attempting to
commit fraud, said Steve Morgan, the county’s executive deputy
commissioner of social services.
An Oskaloosa pharmacist pleaded guilty Friday
to defrauding the state’s Medicaid program
by writing false prescriptions.
Kansas Atty. Gen. Phill Kline’s office announced that Jay Philip Parker,
62, Oskaloosa, owner of Parker’s Pharmacy, turned himself in to
authorities after being charged in Jefferson County District Court.
A Holland, Indiana mother and her adult son are arrested on fraud
charges, involving prescription drugs.
Indiana State Police say they
arrested 58-year-old Lorainne Zink and her 30-year-old son, Brandon
Zink, after receiving a complaint from a Jasper physician. Investigators
allege the mother committed Medicaid fraud, to get the drugs Lortab and
Avinza for her son.
17 Nigerians arrested in US for
medical fraud
Details about the US-based Nigerians indicted in Houston, Texas on
fraudulent charges are now emerging over the weekend, with the release
of the names of over 31 individuals, males and females accused in the
medicaid fraud, Empowered Newswire reports. Going by the names, 22
or more of them are likely to be Nigerians. There is a huge Nigerian
community in the state of Texas, especially in Houston, where the news
broke Friday. The fraud for which the Nigerians and others are being
accused has to do with the US Medicaid system, a form of medical
insurance for people who cannot afford individual health insurance. It
is funded by Americans’ tax dollars.
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