Healthcare fraud
Forest Park TX kickback scheme totaling over 40 million dollars
Kickbacks are still not allowed, much to the surprise of a Forest Park TX medical group. This story coming from Dallas News‘ federal courts reporter Kevin Krause. The Forest Park Medical Center federal bribery and kickback trial in Dallas resulted in landmark convictions against the hospital’s managers and doctors. It also exposed Texas’ longstanding failure…
Read MoreEven the big dogs are getting caught up in fraud.
Coming to us via NBC26 we see reports of Walgreens settling a huge case of fraud in the state of Wisconsin. Even the large corporations can have what we hope are oversights in their plans so your compliance is essential to keeping your practice safe. The U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Wisconsin says…
Read MoreIn 2018 the DOJ recovered 2.5 Billion dollars from Healthcare Fraud
Welcome to the new year. Lets begin by looking back. The DOJ has just released it’s final total funds recovered figure for 2018… It is 2.5B dollars. Lets take a look right from the horse’s mouth on the justice.gov website. Keep in mind that this is just federal dollars that we are talking about here…
Read MoreAI in healthcare fraud detection is here! Protect yourself with Patient Options!
It is here folks! Machine learning and AI are going to be used in a proactive way to detect the fraud in the healthcare market. The investigators will be well down the trail of knowing who to audit before they even send the letter they will have a pretty strong idea of what they will…
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