President Trump’s term ended with a spree of executive clemency to health care crooks who ripped off taxpayers and harmed patients. His last-minute actions infuriated advocates for health care reform and patient protection, as well as federal prosecutors. They were aghast by the inexplicable largess shown to Medicare and medical miscreants included in Trump’s last-minute,….
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Fraudsters boost senior-care nightmares with ‘audacious’ hospice scams
With coronavirus infections and deaths rising anew in worrisome fashion from coast to coast, matters could not get worse with the nation’s long-term care, right? Guess again. Profit-mongering and “audacious, widespread fraud” apparently has run amok in hospice care in the Golden State. Because California, alas, too often serves as a trend-setting locale, patients, their….
Continue ReadingU.S. health watchdog issues fraud warning about doctors’ speaker programs
Buh-bye? Arrivederci? Sayonara? Can it be that the coronavirus pandemic puts an end to one of the disgraceful ways that Big Pharma and medical device makers push their wares on all-too malleable doctors — with big-money speaker programs? The inspector general’s office of the giant federal Health and Human Services (HHS) agency has warned drug-….
Continue ReadingWhistleblowers — and Taxpayers — Win Lawsuit over Medicare Fraud
Here’s another story with a satisfying ending and the take-home lesson that it’s a bad idea to cheat taxpayers and abuse medical resources. A chain of hospices agreed to settle a lawsuit over its overbilling of Medicare, and driving up payments by providing care to patients for whom it wasn’t appropriate. St. Joseph Hospice, which….
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