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		<title>Medicare Fraud Cases on the Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare Fraud Cases on The Rise http://gooznews.com/?p=3453 By GoozNews Federal prosecutors brought a record number of cases of health care fraud in fiscal 2011, a new report said, with Florida and its huge Medicare-dependent population remaining the epicenter of fraudulent claims. The latest data, drawn from federal records by the Transactional Records Access Records database at Syracuse University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senators want better assessment of Medicare fraud detection program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY JOSEPH MARKS 12/20/2011 Medicare officials should better evaluate whether a new system designed to spot fraudulent claims and roll back the program&#8217;s roughly $50 billion in annual improper payments is living up to its potential, a bipartisan group of senators said Tuesday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service responded that it had been measuring results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Medicare Fraud: Medicare fraud bill reintroduced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Miami Herald Blog: Medicare fraud bill reintroduced U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, has reintroduced legislation that would double the fines and jail time for people convicted of Medicare fraud. It also creates a new criminal offense punishable with a 10 year minimum sentence for those who knowingly sell or distribute the ID numbers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Maxim Healthcare Services Senior Manager Sentenced To Prison For Health Care Fraud</title>
		<link>http://healthcarefraudblog.com/former-maxim-healthcare-services-senior-manager-sentenced-to-prison-for-health-care-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcarefraudblog.com/former-maxim-healthcare-services-senior-manager-sentenced-to-prison-for-health-care-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE &#160; Eight Others, Including Senior Managers, Previously Sentenced for Felony Charges Arising out of Maxim’s Activities TRENTON, N.J. – A former senior manager and 13-year employee of Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc. (“Maxim”), was sentenced today to five months in prison and five months of home confinement with electronic monitoring for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Owner And President Of Allied Health Care Services, Inc. Sentenced To More Than 16 Years In Prison In $135 Million Medical Equipment Lease Scheme</title>
		<link>http://healthcarefraudblog.com/former-owner-and-president-of-allied-health-care-services-inc-sentenced-to-more-than-16-years-in-prison-in-135-million-medical-equipment-lease-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://healthcarefraudblog.com/former-owner-and-president-of-allied-health-care-services-inc-sentenced-to-more-than-16-years-in-prison-in-135-million-medical-equipment-lease-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Durable Medical Equipment Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE &#160;  Charles Schwartz Also Ordered to Pay $155 Million in Restitution and Forfeiture NEWARK, N.J. – The former owner and president of Allied Health Care Services, Inc., an Orange, N.J., durable medical equipment corporation, was sentenced today to 195 months in prison for organizing and executing a $135 million phony lease [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Fraud in New Jersey: Diakon agrees to pay federal government $10.5 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[False Claims Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diakon agrees to pay federal government $10.5 million  Diakon Hospice Saint John, which operates hospice care at facilities in Hazleton, Allentown, and Wyomissing, has agreed to resolve its liability for violations of the False Claims Act by paying the United States $10.56 million. The announcement was made today by the United States Attorney’s Office for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty in Connection with $5.4 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme in Detroit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty in Connection with $5.4 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme in Detroit WASHINGTON – A patient recruiter pleaded guilty today for his participation in a Medicare fraud scheme operated out of three Detroit-area health care clinics, announced the Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pompano Beach, Fla.-Area Assisted Living Facility Owner Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Kickback Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Pompano Beach, Fla.-Area Assisted Living Facility Owner Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Kickback Scheme WASHINGTON – The owner and operator of a Pompano Beach, Fla.-area assisted living facility pleaded guilty today for his role in a Medicare fraud kickback scheme that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Fraud Strike Force in Baton Rouge LA Catches 4 Louisiana Physicians Writing Hundreds of Bogus Prescriptions</title>
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		<comments>http://healthcarefraudblog.com/health-care-fraud-strike-force-in-baton-rouge-la-catches-4-louisiana-physicians-writing-hundreds-of-bogus-prescriptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>valerie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Fraud Baton Rouge LA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BATON ROUGE, La. — Four Louisiana physicians wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health-care frauds in the Baton Rouge area, according to evidence amassed by the nearly two-year-old local Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Yet all four physicians remain licensed to practice medicine, including two who pleaded guilty and a third convicted at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Health Care Fraud: ALF operators, recruiters plead guilty in major Medicare fraud case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Operators of South Florida assisted-living facilities and halfway houses charged in one of the nation’s biggest Medicare fraud cases are rushing to plead guilty rather than face risky trials and long prison sentences. Six defendants are now looking at shorter federal sentences because of their plea agreements. And a seventh defendant, Joseph B. Williams, 41, [...]]]></description>
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