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Bogus Home Health Referrals Feature In Latest Fraud Case From Detroit
Published on Fri Oct 20, 2017
A Detroit-area physician has pled guilty to a conspiracy charge in a wide-ranging Medicare fraud scheme that included home health. Abdul Haq "referred Medicare beneficiaries to specific third party home health agencies ... even though those referrals were medically unnecessary," the Department of Justice notes in a release. Other parts of the $19 million scheme involved prescribing medically unnecessary drugs such as Oxycodone, serving as a straw owner of pain clinics when another defendant was the real owner, and making medically unnecessary referrals to labs and diagnostic providers, the DOJ says. Six others were indicted in the case and await trial.
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