Tag: Medicare fraud
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Sen. Rick Scott talks Medicare fraud; no, not his ex-company’s Medicare fraud
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-FL, knows a thing or two about Medicare fraud. He built and ran Columbia/HCA, the huge hospital company that’s become synonymous with mega-healthcare fraud since it was forced to pay $1.7 billion in criminal fines, civil restitution in the early 2000s.
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Elderly South Florida mobster Thomas Farese at the top of $93 million healthcare fraud, feds say
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Since the 1970s mobster Tommy Farese has been a recurring character on the pages of South Florida newspapers. So it was surprising when the reputed Colombo family consiglieri didn’t make the Sun-Sentinel last week for his latest alleged caper: a $93-million health care fraud scheme.
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Gov. Scott, his lobbyist pal, a nursing home deal and a curious change of heart at AHCA
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org Three years ago, state healthcare regulators moved to block Dr. Jack Michel’s bid to buy the Hollywood nursing home where more than a dozen elderly patients later met their deaths in the wake of Hurricane Irma. But months later, after Michel retained a lobbyist confidant of Gov. Rick Scott the state’s…
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Medicare fraud outrunning enforcement efforts; failures to investigate and more cuts coming
By Fred Schulte Center for Public Integrity Citing massive budget and staff cuts, federal officials are set to scale back or drop a host of investigations into Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse — even though cracking down on government waste and cutting health care costs have been top priorities for the Obama administration.