The indictment of a Detroit area sham therapy operation was announced this summer, and in a United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) press release on Monday, the main conspirator plead guilty to a $18.2 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program. According to the DOJ press release “…Chand admitted that in order to create the [...]
Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have jointly announced the creation of a new fraud initiation called HEAT: the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team. The expansion of the Medicare Strike Force team operations to Detroit and Houston was also announced. Medicare Fraud Strike Forces are currently operating [...]