From a Florida physician getting 20 years in prison for the "largest ever" case of its kind, to a New York gastroenterologist getting 30 months in prison for a Medicare fraud scheme, here are 13 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's has reported since Dec. 29.
Birmingham, Ala.-based medical billing company Amvik has agreed to pay $153,300 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to the Connecticut Medicaid program for applied behavior analysis services.
North Carolina lab owner Donald Booker was convicted for his role in a scheme to defraud the state's Medicaid program with medically unnecessary urine tests.
3. Mississippi provider pays $1.8M to settle overbilling allegations
A Mississippi orthopedic clinic and its owner, Hanna "Johnny" Mitias, MD, agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle allegations he overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for viscosupplementation agents.
4. 3 companies settle for $745K for misbranded migraine devices
Medical device distributor Jet Medical and two related companies agreed to pay $745,000 for allegedly instructing, coaching and encouraging medical providers to submit improper billing codes to Medicare for services involving migraine headache devices not approved by the FDA.
Khalid Satary, the owner of several labs in Georgia, Oklahoma and Louisiana, is a wanted fugitive for alleged fraud involving unnecessary cancer genetic testing that resulted in billing Medicare for more than $547 million. After failing to appear at a Dec. 12 court...
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