According to state officials, increased enforcement has helped the state of Texas recover more than $500 million in Medicaid fraud cases since 2007. David Morales, deputy first assistant attorney general, told Texas state senators earlier this week that the increase coincides with the expansion of the Texas Medicaid civil fraud division four years ago. State [...]
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa was the primary Senate sponsor of 1986 amendments to the federal False Claims Act that bolstered and updated the statute’s whistleblower provisions. Now, the longtime False Claims Act proponent is working to ensure that recent changes to the federal law are made part of fourteen state False Claims Acts [...]
Senator Chuck Grassley, longtime proponent of strengthening the federal False Claims Act in order to fight fraud against the government, is now working to ensure that recent changes to that statute are made part of fourteen state False Claims Acts patterned after the federal model. Many states have enacted legislation similar to the federal statute [...]
The Senate Finance Committee is investigating whether four for-profit home-health companies purposely increased high-paying home health visits specifically to receive increased Medicare reimbursements. The companies at issue are Amedisys, LHC roup Inc., Gentiva Health Services Inc., and Almost Family Inc. Letters sent to the home health companies state that the companies appear to have intentionally [...]
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