Tag: Department of Justice

A Covid Test Medicare Scam May Be a Trial Run for Further Fraud

By Susan Jaffe, KHN  | May 18, 2023 | This story also ran on  

Medicare coverage for at-home covid-19 tests ended last week, but the scams spawned by the temporary pandemic benefit could have lingering consequences for seniors.

Medicare advocates around the country who track fraud noticed an eleventh-hour rise in complaints from beneficiaries who received tests — sometimes by the dozen — that they never requested. It’s a signal that someone may have been using, and could continue to use, seniors’ Medicare information to improperly bill the federal government. …One beneficiary in Indiana suspected something was amiss after receiving 32 unrequested tests over a 10-day period. [Continued on Kaiser Health News, NPR, Yahoo News, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch]…

Doctors arrested in US crackdown on illegal opioids

Volume 393, Number 10182      

27 April 2019       

 

WORLD REPORT   The multiagency operation hit five states and led to the arrest of 60 people. Perpetrators face up to
50 years’ prison sentence if found guilty. Susan Jaffe reports.

Arrests of 31 doctors, pharmacists, and other health care professionals for allegedly prescribing and distributing illegal opioids affected some 28,000 of their patients. That’s why Department of Justice officials are working with state health departments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services to help patients by “… bringing enforcement and [opioid addiction] treatment closer together…than ever before,” says Benjamin Glassman, the US attorney for the southern district of Ohio. [Continued here.]
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