Wellcare to Pay $80 Million in Medicaid Fraud Case
Executives and employees at WellCare Health Plans Inc. engaged in an elaborate scheme to defraud the Florida Medicaid program and the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation,…
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South Florida Company Bilks Medicare Out of $170 Million
R&I Billing was charged with fraudulently billing Medicare $170 million for infusions of HIV drugs. The scheme worked as follows: “From roughly October 2002 through…
Read More »South Florida Medicare Fraud Causes Government to Take A Closer Look
Federal officials have documented in excess of $140 million in Medicare fraud in South Florida alone. With 38 arrests in a recent sting operation, the…
Read More »CMS Steps Up Efforts to Ferret Out Fraud -Southern Florida is mentioned
CMS recently announced multiple accomplishments and projects, all designed to reduce fraud and abuse: the Los Angeles office of CMS revoked the billing numbers of…
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