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Claustro’s role in Liberty Medical Group was laid out in state court filings. In October, psychologist Nhung Phan sued Liberty Medical, alleging she was owed $100,000 for evaluations conducted ...
The Division of Medi-Cal Fraud & Elder Abuse (DMFEA) protects California's most vulnerable citizens and helps to safeguard the state's Medi-Cal program. The Division of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse works aggressively to investigate and prosecute those who rob taxpayers of millions of dollars each year and divert scarce health care resources ...
A Southern California doctor accused of bilking Medicare out of millions by billing for unnecessary hospice services has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, federal prosecutors said. Dr ...
In 1979, Chapter 12 of the California Insurance code established the "Bureau of Fraudulent Claims" to investigate criminal insurance violations. In 1980, the fraud investigators became sworn peace officers under Penal Code 830.3(i). In 1988, the Bureau of Fraudulent claims was reclassified as the "Fraud Division."
Michael Drobot is a convicted felon who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest fraud in the history of California. [1] In 2018, he was sentenced for "overseeing a 15-year-long healthcare fraud scheme" involving more than $40 million of illegal kickbacks and $500 million in fraudulent medical bills. [2]
Dignity Health and Tenet Healthcare Corporation both paid settlements to the government for the alleged false claims.
A case of Medicaid fraud was carried out in 2010 by an Armenian-American organized crime group called the Mirzoyan–Terdjanian organization. [1] [2] The scam involved a crime syndicate which created 118 fake clinics in 25 states and used stolen medical license numbers of real doctors and matched them to legitimate Medicare patients whose names and billing information were also stolen.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the results of a nationwide health care fraud investigation that uncovered over $2.7 billion in fraudulent bill by 193 defendants in 32 districts across ...