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On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed Congress on the current debate over healthcare reform. In his speech, the President vowed he would eliminate “the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud.” Under his plan, an independent commission of doctors and medical experts would be appointed the task of uncovering fraud [...]
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PBS business news correspondent Jeff Yastine interviewed Marcella Auerbach for his broadcast news segment titled, “Dozens Arrested For Medicare Fraud,” which aired nationally during the July 30, 2009 nightly news cast. Marcella was also quoted in Jeff’s related news article titled, “Fighting Medicare Fraud.” In celebration of the 44th anniversary of Medicare, the segment reported [...]
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In the July 13 edition of the Report on Medicare Compliance, Editor Nina Armstrong quoted Ken Nolan in her article titled, “Teaching Hospital Settles Physician Billing Case, Signs Second Agreement with OIG.” The article reported that Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport (LSUHSC-S) recently settled a dispute alleging it billed Medicare for surgery [...]
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Marcella Auerbach was quoted by Amy Lynn Sorrel in her article “Physicians snared by growing Medicare fraud strike team,” which appeared in the July 6 online edition of American Medical News. The article discussed the announcement by the Department of Justice and Health & Human Services that criminal charges were filed against 53 doctors and [...]
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