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  Medicare Wants Money Back They Say Was an Overpayment

  Question: Dear Steve, After an auto accident was taken to a southwest Tennessee hospital. Hospital charged the other drivers insurance right. Ok. Somehow Medicare ended up paying for a portion of my care and is now demanding...

  • Posted May 8, 2018
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  My Medical Situation Has Me Hurting Financially. – Louise

  “Dear Steve, I am currently 53 years old and single (never married). I am a licensed practical nurse. I was working full time until 2005 – when I went into kidney failure and had to go on...

  • Posted June 6, 2013
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  Would My Bankruptcy Have Any Impact on My Medicare or Medigap Insurance? – Lee

  “Dear Steve, I have medicare & medicare gap coverage. Have filed for bankruptcy & discharged. If I were to mention to them I had filed, (just in case). Would that have an impact on my gap premium....

  • Posted May 2, 2013
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• Detroit-Area Doctor Charged for Role in Alleged $40 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

  According to a criminal complaint unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Dr. Hicham Elhorr, 45, masterminded a $ 40 million scheme involving the submission of fraudulent claims submitted to Medicare for services that were medically...

  • Posted September 20, 2012
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• Attorney General Gansler Warns Consumers About Medicare Scam Simple advice: Never give out personal information to someone you don’t know

  Maryland consumers should be on the lookout for the latest scam that seeks to steal personal information over the phone by using the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Federal Health Care Reform) as a ploy. “If...

  • Posted August 17, 2012
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• FTC Charges Settled By CVS After Deceptive Prescription Pricing For Seniors And Disabled Consumers

  Stories like this scare me. Especially when I have family that utilizes these pharmacies and participates in the Medicare program. If you’re using Part D prescription drugs from CVS, read on…. It was announced late last week...

  • Posted January 16, 2012
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• Your 2012 New Year’s Resolution: Don’t Get Scammed!

  History repeats itself. Fact. George Santayana once stated, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This fact holds true with every aspect of one’s life, especially in one’s financial life. And especially in...

  • Posted January 9, 2012
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• Fraud Scheme Related to the World Trade Center Site Clean-Up

  A trucking company’s owners have been indicted on embezzlement, tax evasion and million dollar fraud charges related to the World Trade Center site clean-up. A thirty-one count indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn this month...

  • Posted December 27, 2011
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• Defendants Arrested In Conjunction With $700,000 Health Care Fraud

  Earlier this month three people, Ovsanna Agopian (aka Joanna Ovsanna / Joanna Smbatyan / Ovsanna Agopian), Boghos Babadjanian and Tolulope Labeodan, were charged in a federal indictment with various offenses related to their involvement in the operation...

  • Posted November 29, 2011
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• Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty To Role In Miami-Area $25 Million Home Health Medicare Fraud

  Another defendant in the Miami $25 million home health Medicare fraud scheme pled guilty for her participation in the scheme as a patient recruiter. Beatriz Torres-Cruz pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care...

  • Posted November 16, 2011
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• Vanguard Settles With $2 Million In False Claims Act

  It was announced last week that the United States and the State of Tennessee will be receiving $2 million in a settlement of False Claims Act allegations from Vanguard and its wholly owned subsidiary, Vanguard Health Care...

  • Posted November 16, 2011
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• Until Fraud Do Us Part : Married Fraudsters Face Jail Time For Health Care Kickbacks

  Married floridian fraudsters, Robert and Nikki Jenkins have each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to solicit and receive health care kick backs after funneling patients through, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), a fraudulent mental health company....

  • Posted November 15, 2011
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• Two Of America’s “Most Wanted” Sentenced

  Two of America’s “Most Wanted” health care fraud fugitives were sentenced in Florida last week. Two sisters, Caridad Guilarte and Clara Guilarte, owned a fraudulent medical clinic near Detroit that lead to a $9.1 million Medicare fraud...

  • Posted November 9, 2011
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• 135 Month Sentence For $45 Million Medicare Fraud

  Houston, Texas doctor, Christina Joy Clardy, was sentenced to just over 11 years (135 months) in federal prison for a monumental health care fraud conspiracy the resulted in Medicare and Texas Medicaid programs to be billed $45,039,230...

  • Posted November 2, 2011
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• Is It Prescription Harvesting Season Again? Sixteen Arrested In Conjunction With Operation “Psyched Out”

  I love the names investigators attach to investigations. For example, last week 16 arrests in conduction with Operation “Psyched Out” were made. Operation “Psyched Out”! Love the name, not the act. Apparently sixteen people affiliated with the...

  • Posted November 1, 2011
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• Commonwealth Temporary Services Owner Sentenced For “One Of The Most Egregious Tax Evasion Schemes”

  It was announced on October 26, 2011 that Michael Powers, former owner of Commonwealth Temporary Services, a temporary employment agency, has been sentenced to seven years in prison in “one of the most egregious tax evasion schemes”...

  • Posted October 28, 2011
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• FTC Asks To Restrict Pay-For-Delay Deals To Lower Consumers’ Health Care Costs

  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a report of data pertaining to the 2011 fiscal year which showed that pharmaceutical companies continued an anticompetitive trend of paying potential generic rivals to delay the introduction of low-cost...

  • Posted October 25, 2011
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• Whistle Blower Is Rewarded For Uncovering Medicare Fraud

  Dr. Steven Stern and his Kentuckiana Center for Better Bone and Joint Health (KCB) practice have agreed to pay $349,860 to settle an overfilling of Medicare allegation. Suzette Sewell-Scheuremann, a former employee of the Kentuckiana Center for...

  • Posted October 7, 2011
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• Alleged Obstruction Of Justice Of Attorney And Client In $188 Million Fraud

  At one point in time attorney, Fredrick Cuppy, represented the former owner and chief executive, Peter Rogan, of the bankrupt Edgewayer Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago. Cuppy has now been arrested on federal charges flaming that...

  • Posted October 7, 2011
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• Medicare Fraud By “Erectile Pump” – Really, I Can’t Make This Stuff Up

  In my research lately I’ve found story after story of Medicare or health insurance fraud. After a while, day after day, story after story, it all tends to run together. Except for the doozey I’m about to...

  • Posted October 3, 2011
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• American Therapeutic Corporation Owner Received Longest Prison Sentence For A Medicare Fraud Case Ever

  Lawrence Duran, Miami resident and owner of health care company, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC) has received the longest prison sentence ever imposed in a Medicare fraud case with 50 years in prison when he orchestrated a $205...

  • Posted September 21, 2011
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• Financial Concerns for People With Long-Term Illnesses

  A diagnosis of any major disease will change your life. You may spend much of your time thinking about life and death and your own mortality. You might be trying to hold onto a job, if your...

  • Posted June 2, 2010
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• Coping With Medical Bills

  With medical bills skyrocketing, many people feel they simply can’t afford to be sick. But illness and accidents happen anyway, leaving many families financially unhealthy or even bankrupt. While there is no single, simple solution to the...

  • Posted June 2, 2010
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• Financial Concerns for People With AIDS/HIV

  A diagnosis of HIV or AIDS will change your life. You may spend much of your time thinking about life and death and your own mortality. You might be trying to hold onto a job, if your...

  • Posted May 30, 2010
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• Deborah Wants to Write Letters to Creditors. But is That a Waste of Time?

  Deborah “Dear Steve, I have over $30,000 of debt. Most of this is credit card debt but almost as much is medical (doctors, emergency room, ambulance, nursing home, etc.) I thankfully had insurance that paid 80% of...

  • Posted March 25, 2010
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• I Can’t Afford to Eat or Take My Medications. What Am I Going to Do? – Mickey

  Mickey “Dear Steve, I am 61yrs old, have been on disability since 1995. I am on Medicare, Part D plan but I was denied supplemental insurance because it took SS 2yrs to approve my disability and I...

  • Posted December 14, 2009
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• Holy, Divorced, Disabled and Desperately in Debt

  Holy “Dear Steve, I am a divorced 56 year old woman who suffered an injury as a teacher in a public school in May, 2000. I now suffer with a severe and permanent chronic pain condition (Reflex...

  • Posted November 26, 2008
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