tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 39

Fraud & Abuse: HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS STILL UNDER THE GUN

DOJ boast sheet touts record-setting fraud haul.  Think health care fraud enforcement is easing up after years of aggressive scrutiny? Think again. The feds collected a record-setting $1.6 billion from providers, suppliers and others they suspected of ripping off the Medicare and Medicaid program in fiscal year 2002. "This is the largest return to the government" since enforcement was dramatically stepped up in 1996, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services brag in their 2002 Annual Report for the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program. Released Oct. 6, the report tallies...

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