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Posted By: Dave Janke on March 2, 2012
Fellow Allied Health Care Providers, If you are not already aware of the below site, you will be amazed at what some of the former DMEPOS providers were doing prior to serving their time. Please note the availability to subscribe to their email list where you can choose to receive conviction details about only specific areas such as DME and O&P providers. To give you an idea on the enormity of their recent offenses I copied the below quote from one of today's articles. This total is for only those wrongdoers who have been discovered and convicted. My math indicates that they have exposed and are now attempting to recover an annual average of $720,000,000. This total is not just DMEPOS fraud. This includes all types of authentic and imitation providers who averaged over 2.7 million each. "Since their inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in nine locations have charged more than 1,190 defendants who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for more than $3.6 billion. In addition, HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers." http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/enforcement/criminal/ Howbouthat, Dave Janke CPO Portland OR _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter .. SPAMfighter has removed 1094 of my spam emails to date. Do you have a slow PC? Try free scan! |
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