Blog posts with "Medical Billing"

The Medicare Fraud Strike Force is operating heavily in South Florida and its investigations continue to generate successful prosecutions of Medicare fraud as indicated by several recent press releases by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. These successfully prosecuted cases were all investigated by the FBI and HHS-OIG as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force under the supervision of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. The Medic...

  Two radiologists at the University of Missouri School of Medicine were fired for falsely billing Medicare according to an Associated Press article. The false medical billing sparked an internal investigation by the University of Missouri and an ongoing federal investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The internal investigation revealed “that the two doctors falsely said they reviewed X-rays but instead relied solely on resident physicians, a violation of Medicare and hospital rul...