Medicare and Medicaid fraud refer to illegal practices aimed at getting unfairly high payouts from government-funded healthcare programs.Fraudinvolves deceit with the intention to illegally or unethically gain at the expense of another, in this case in order to illegally gain at the expense of gover...
…The hospital tax is the biggest revenue-raiser, but 44 states also tax nursing homes, and 34 tax at least one other type of health-care provider. The GAO study found that these taxes had almost doubled nationally, from about $9.5 billion in 2008 to $18.5 billion in 2012. By the ...
The Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) found that the nursing homes had routinely billed Medicaid for reserved beds when their vacancy rates exceeded 5 percent. N.Y. targets Medicaid overpayments: nursing home operators to repay funds. (News Fronts) Next, attorneys were designa...