WASHINGTON -- The government says it recovered almost $8 for each dollar it spent investigating health care fraud over the past three years, including...
The rise of for-profit nursing homes is proving tragic for some of the nation's most vulnerable people, resulting in a spike in waste, fraud and abuse...
Drug companies paid $30.2 billion to settle 239 cases of alleged fraud against government health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid between 1991...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- A New York man charged with running a health care fraud scam from his upscale Manhattan apartment was released on a $2 million bond ...
It's a staggering amount to think about: Health care fraud costs the economy about $250 billion every year, according to the FBI.
Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Bernice Yeung Southern California’s largest clinical laboratory and radiology company serving nur...
JACKSON, Miss. -- An ex-office manager has pleaded guilty in what prosecutors say was a multimillion dollar health care fraud in which a cancer clinic...
If Texas physician Jacques Roy turns out to be guilty of charges he conspired to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of almost $375 million, we'll know wher...
Federal authorities arrested a Texas physician and six others today on charges they bilked Medicare and Medicaid of $375 million from 2006 until last ...
MIAMI -- Federal authorities say they recovered $4.1 billion in health care fraud judgments last year, a record high which officials on Monday credite...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department reported Monday that it has recovered nearly $9 billion in fraud against the government since the beginning ...
Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Christina Jewett The federal government is on track to prosecute nearly twice as many health care f...
What do you do when your husband disappears from your bed one night, leaves you with $6 million in debt, and turns out to be a total fraud? If you're Michelle Kramer, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get a Ph.D. in psychology.
The cynic in me tells me that corporate profits and CEO pay would increase. However, we do need to protect our patients from unnecessary testing and surgery that detracts from the high ethical standards of the medical professional.
MIAMI — Federal authorities charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with Medicare fraud Thursday, part of a...
Whether it's a political stunt or the act of an extremist ideologue, Rick Scott is hurting real Floridians in concrete ways by bucking the health care law, including millions of people with private health insurance or Medicare benefits.
WASHINGTON — The government says it recovered $2.5 billion in overpayments for the Medicare trust fund last year as the Obama administration foc...
HAMMOND, Ind. — A federal magistrate says a former surgeon who was arrested in Italy after five years on the run and extradited to Indiana to fa...
While politicians are busy declaring success in health care reform I just gotta ask -- what about the Medicare and Medicaid fraud that cost us a collective $54 billion last year?
Saying she'd be a tough enforcer, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Health and Human Services Department on Tuesday called for a crackdown o...
