http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/ Published by The Law Offices of Robert David Malove en-us 2010-03-11T07:00:00-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/03/sometimes_being_the_low_man_on_1.html Alex Carrazana was a Medical Assistant. He is currently serving 72 months in prison for Medicare Fraud. He was for a time employed by a clinic called Midway Medical. At that clinic his job was to help with the infusion... Medicare Fraud healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-03-11T07:00:00-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/03/the_war_on_pain_law_enforcemen_1.html When it comes to chronic pain, the current DEA war on pain management leads to a question: How much authority should the DEA have over the treatment of patients? According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, “If you’re... Healthcare Policy healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-03-10T07:00:00-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/03/law_enforcement_focuses_on_pai.html According to an article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, at least 45 pain clinics opened in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the past year, while state law makers and state and local law enforcement agencies stepped-up their efforts to... Pain Managment healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-03-09T11:32:39-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/03/the_value_of_patient_informati_1.html Florida and a number of states attempting to outlaw so called ambulance chasing in personal injury cases have employed several methods to limit access to records of patients. First, statutes prohibit access to police accident reports for 60-days. Second, statutes... Health Care Fraud healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-03-08T21:04:37-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/03/the_return_of_the_medicare_bou.html In the 1990’s there was a system in place that seemed reasonable at the time. The government hired private companies to audit hospital cost reports on the government’s behalf and to add additional incentive, those companies, generally large insurance companies,... Medicare Fraud healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-03-04T19:05:34-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/03/shut_up_dont_call_attention_to.html Whatever you do, don't harass the Medicare fraud investigators. A kind of simple rule, if you are committing a crime (no one I represent does that), don’t go out of your way to send harassing emails and phone calls to... Health Care Fraud healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-03-03T17:18:26-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/02/delray_beach_pain_management_r.html The City of Delray Beach, Florida, is considering requiring pain management patients to give their fingerprints so those fingerprints can be used to immediately electronically check against a database to make sure the patient is not doctor shopping. That sounds... Pain Managment healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-02-28T17:47:09-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/02/undercover_patients_for_medica_1.html U.S. Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who is also a medical doctor, is proposing that the United States root out Medicare Fraud through the use of undercover patients. Actually this is not new a new idea, government agents have in... Medicaid Fraud healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-02-25T18:32:50-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/02/man_sentenced_to_70_months_in.html Arnesto Segredo, of Miami was sentenced to 70 months in prison for of conspiring to divert the prescription drugs Serostim and Nutropin AQ. Both drugs are human growth hormones (HGH). The scheme involved Segredo using first and unlicensed company and... Drug Diversion healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-02-19T18:12:04-05:00 http://www.healthcarefraudblog.com/2010/02/the_self_reporting_quandary.html If a provider discovers that it may have submitted false claims to Medicare or Medicaid, either through errors or through the malfeasance of an employee, the provider is obligated to pay the program back the funds wrongfully obtained. Medicare has... Medicare Fraud healthcarefraudblog-1 2010-02-10T10:16:15-05:00