tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2010 Issue 20

In Other News: Feds Bust Organized Crime Medicare Fraud Scheme

The feds have taken down one of the huge Medicare fraud schemes of the type that is making your life harder. Law- and policy-makers have been issuing new compliance rules based on the crimes like those allegedly committed by an Armenian -- American organized crime syndicate. Seventy-three defendants in that case were charged in indictments unsealed Oct. 13 in five judicial districts with various health care fraud-related crimes involving more than $163 million in fraudulent billing, says the Department of Justice, FBI, and OIG in a release. The defendants allegedly stole the identities of doctors and thousands of Medicare...

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