Medicare fraud nets healthcare providers jail time
Patient Financial Services Weekly Advisor, biz journals, January 25, 2008
Medicare fraud in the Miami-Dade County is not paying dividends for some healthcare providers.
The U.S. Department of Justice says owners of healthcare companies learned in the last two weeks they will see jail time for filing a total of $56.6 million worth of fraudulent Medicare claims.
The fraud stemmed from reimbursement for durable medical equipment claims. Officials reported an average Medicare patient in Miami-Dade County got $6,200 worth of DME every year; the US average is about $1,200 a year.
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