by Jenni Espay | Feb 24, 2022 | Article, Broadcast, Fighting Fraud, Healthcare Fraud, Infographic, Media, Medicare Fraud Alerts, Medicare Legal Action, Medicare News, Scam Alert
February 24, 2022 DAYTON, Ohio – American Health Associates, Inc. (AHA) has agreed to pay the United States $142,718 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for diagnostic testing. AHA has offices...
by Lisa Dalga | Apr 26, 2021 | Medicare Legal Action
April 26, 2021 A Texas man was sentenced to 27 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy at the Merida Group, a chain of hospice and home health agencies throughout Texas, to falsely convince thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases they had less...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 31, 2021 | Article, Medicare Legal Action
March 31, 2021 Jeremy Richey, 40, of Mars, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty by videoconference to a superseding information charging him with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in connection with a scheme to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute. Richey...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 29, 2021 | Article, Medicare Legal Action
March 29, 2021 Rural/Metro Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $650,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare for ambulance transports. According to the settlement agreement, from January...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 22, 2021 | Medicare Legal Action
March 22, 2021 An Oakland County Cardiologist, Dinesh M. Shah, M.D. and his practice, Michigan Physicians Group, P.C. (MPG) have paid the United States $2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing federal healthcare...
by Lisa Dalga | Mar 18, 2021 | Medicare Legal Action
March 18, 2021 The civil and criminal healthcare fraud cases against FENG QIN, M.D. (“QIN”), a vascular surgeon, and his medical practice QIN MEDICAL P.C. (“QIN MEDICAL”) have been resolved. QIN, who practiced in Lower Manhattan and Far Rockaway, Queens, was...
