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  2. Health care fraud - Wikipedia

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    Under federal law, health care fraud in the United States is defined, and made illegal, primarily by the health care fraud statute in 18 U.S.C. § 1347 states [4] (a) Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice—. (1) to defraud a financial institution; or. (2) to obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses ...

  3. Medicare Abuse: What You Need to Know About Medicare Fraud

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    Call 800-MEDICARE (800-633-4227) to report suspected Medicare abuse or fraud. Medicare abuse, or Medicare fraud, is a type of healthcare fraud that affects people enrolled in Medicare. The most ...

  4. Medicare fraud - Wikipedia

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    Medicare fraud. In the United States, Medicare fraud is the claiming of Medicare health care reimbursement to which the claimant is not entitled. There are many different types of Medicare fraud, all of which have the same goal: to collect money from the Medicare program illegitimately. [1]

  5. False Claims Act of 1863 - Wikipedia

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    No. 21-1052, 599 U.S. ___ (2023) The False Claims Act of 1863 ( FCA) [1] is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies (typically federal contractors) who defraud governmental programs. It is the federal government's primary litigation tool in combating fraud against the government. [2]

  6. Healthcare exec Philip Esformes pleads guilty to Medicare ...

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    A South Florida businessman pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing millions of dollars from the taxpayer-funded Medicare program, capping a long-running healthcare fraud case marked by a ...

  7. DOJ charges nearly 80 people in $2.5 billion health care ...

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    The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday it has charged 78 people relating to their alleged involvement in defrauding care programs for elderly and disabled people of more than $2.5 ...

  8. US announces charges in $2.5 billion healthcare fraud takedown

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    By Sarah N. Lynch. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday announced federal and local criminal charges targeting 78 defendants across 16 states as part of a law enforcement ...

  9. Insurance fraud - Wikipedia

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    The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that 3% of the health care industry's expenditures in the United States are due to fraudulent activities, amounting to a cost of about $51 billion. Other estimates attribute as much as 10% of the total healthcare spending in the United States to fraud—about $115 billion annually.

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