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The HEAT Is On Home Care Fraudsters

Published on Mon Jan 17, 2011

Nine Medicare fraud strike force teams contribute to record-setting fraud recoveries. Federal authorities have cracked down on Medicare fraud, and they have the results to prove it. The government's health care fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered nearly $4.1 billion in fiscal year 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice say in a release. That's the largest sum ever recorded in a single year, the agencies tout. Recoveries from home care providers appear to have made up a significant portion of that record-setting number, judging from the laundry list of home care convictions, guilty pleas, and settlements reached in Florida, Texas, California, Mich-igan, and Illinois -- plus high-profile settlements with national chains Gentiva Health Services Inc. and Maxim Healthcare Services Inc. Assisting in those efforts were Medicare fraud strike force teams in nine cities across the country, HHS and the DOJ note in their [...]
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