Articles tagged with: healthcare fraud
Fraud in Healthcare Increases
Health care fraud in the United States is estimated to cost $270 billion every year. Approximately 10 percent of our nation’s health care expenses are lost to healthcare fraud. Health care scams are constantly evolving …
Fraud and Predators
Healthcare fraud continues as reports come in about a Kentucky woman being charged for collaborating and conspiring to defraud the United States via healthcare kickbacks through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This interesting news came …
Is Fraud Getting Easier To Detect?
Fraud takes no time at all. It took just two minutes for hackers to breach a hospital’s network and deploy ransomware recently. It is hard to ignore the recent increase in reporting of hospitals victimized …
Medical Data Fraud is a Big Issue
Protection from medical data fraud is a serious matter for all, or at least it should be. Criminals are trying to figure out how to turn every piece of our digital life into cash, and their …
Hospice Fraud and Scam
Fraud didn’t stop for the pandemic. Recently, two hospice doctors and a nurse involved in a $40 million Medicare scam have been sentenced to a combined 23 years in prison. This interesting information came to …
Fraud Investigations Continue
A physician in Michigan has been convicted in a more than $100 million healthcare fraud and money laundering scheme and is facing a maximum penalty of life in prison. Becker’s Hospital Review brought this interesting …
Fighting Fraud with Technology
In 2020, the Justice Department opened a record number of healthcare fraud cases and because of such is focusing its fraud initiatives on healthcare employees who make false claims with electronic health records (EHRs). Becker’s …
Fighting Fraud on All Fronts
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Program Integrity (CPI) has awarded an application programming interface (API) implementation contract that has in its objectives, boosting data sharing for fraud detection. EHR Intelligence brought this …
Fraud Affects Everyone
Another case of health care fraud. Another reason to be alert and proactive. The Pantagraph brought this news to our attention in their article, “East St. Louis personal assistant facing charges of health care fraud.”
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Fighting a Pandemic and Fraud
Legitimate medical professionals and scientists throughout the United States worked hard to find a cure and approved treatments for COVID-19, and haven’t stopped. There are, unfortunately, bad people selling fraudulent COVID-19 test kits and unapproved …
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