Tag: Medicare
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Mental health services for Miami-Dade seniors in jeopardy after Florida healthcare agency changes billing practices
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org Miami-Dade senior citizens with mental health illnesses who rely on Medicaid and Medicare to cover their therapy sessions and medications are on the brink of losing their treatment thanks to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
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Humana health plan overcharged Medicare by nearly $200 million, federal audit finds
By Fred Schulte Kaiser Health News A Humana Inc. health plan for seniors in Florida improperly collected nearly $200 million in 2015 by overstating how sick some patients were, according to a new federal audit, which seeks to claw back the money.
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Publix: Where political giving to DeSantis helped get no-bid COVID vaccine business
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org By partnering with Publix to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to senior citizens, Gov. Ron DeSantis handed the Lakeland-based grocery chain a lucrative new business that has charged millions of dollars to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.
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U.S. settles case against Broward Health for millions less than it lost in alleged fraud
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org The U.S. Justice Department settled a massive healthcare fraud case against Broward Health last month for millions of dollars less than the government lost as a result of the alleged fraud, records show.
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Broward Health’s $70 million settlement leaves risk of criminal charges
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Court documents describe the massive healthcare fraud that led Broward Health to pay $69.5 million to settle a whistleblower’s lawsuit last week as an illegal “scheme of mutual enrichment” between the hospital system and its physicians. Was it a criminal scheme?
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Illegal kickbacks to doctors to cost Broward Health $69.5 million
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Taxpayer-supported Broward Health has agreed to pay $69.5 million in penalties to settle federal allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to nine doctors who referred patients to its hospitals in a scheme that went on for more than a decade.