tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 23

Physician Notes: Feds Charge 243 People in Medicare Strike Force Takedown

Government officials were quite busy last week, crossing the country to charge 243 different people with Medicare fraud totaling $712 million in false billings. The charges, which were brought against a variety of defendants, including 46 doctors, nurses and other practitioners, came to fruition on June 18, the Justice Department announced in a news release. The event was a record for the government, resulting in the biggest Medicare Strike Force takedown in history. The charges range from conspiracy to commit health care fraud, anti-kickback violations, identity theft, and more. “The defendants charged include doctors, patient recruiters, home health...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Part B Insider.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI’s Part B Insider will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4800 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles

This feature is currently unavailable for online purchase. For more information, please call 801-770-4203 or Contact Us.

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.

Aimee- AI -powered coding assistant - Try it now for Free Would you like Aimee - AI
to help you with this?