The way I see it, we need to put financial resources into addressing Medicare fraud.
Tuesday's bust marks the sixth national Medicare fraud takedown under the strike force teams.
Medicare fraud is on the rise and the FBI is cracking down on it.
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ObamaCare takes one good step by trying to reduce Medicare fraud, but it stops there.
Health reform is also strengthening the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and cracking down on Medicare fraud.
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More recently, dozens of Cuban Medicare fraud fugitives in the U.S. have tried to escape prosecution by returning to the island.
The process was set up as the company was negotiating a settlement, now being finalized, over charges of massive Medicare fraud.
In Rhode Island, a different take on Medicare fraud has been discovered.
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Twice her office prosecuted a San Diego hospital for Medicare fraud.
He hired Doorbal, a gym rat and steroids abuser, as a part-time employee and cut him in on a lucrative Medicare fraud scheme.
Schiller, who later pled guilty to Medicare fraud, said he had earned the stolen money honestly through an accounting practice and other investments and businesses.
As a result, many observation decisions are driven, not by doctors, but by Medicare fraud auditors who can deny payments for patients they deem improperly admitted.
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Dr. Ted Mazer, who heads the San Diego County Medical Society, says while Medicare fraud is a concern, Lam's long hours in the courtroom may have been a distraction.
Specifically, the Obama Administration has greatly expanded the use of Medicare Fraud Strike Forces, specialized teams of agents and prosecutors who focus on catching health care fraud.
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United States Attorney General Eric Holder's investigative fraud unit has stated that they have been working on Medicare fraud in hopes of better vetting new Medicare providers.
This may be because speculators feared that the takeover would be scotched or because of the general fear of Medicare fraud becoming a factor again in the industry.
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He started in the position in August, 2009, and his short tenure has been crowded with aggressive prosecutions of terrorism, Medicare fraud, illegal tax shelters, and public corruption.
Medicare fraud often involves networks of acquaintances and family members.
Medicare fraud has adapted into complex schemes over the years, moving from medical equipment and HIV infusion fraud to ambulance scams, as crooks try to stay one step ahead of authorities.
So extensive is Medicare crime that, in the city of Miami, the cocaine capital of America, Medicare fraud has now replaced the drug trade as the number one criminal activity in the city.
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That's why the IRS conducts audits, why Medicare employs fraud investigators, why courts have juries and judges, and why scholarly journals engage in peer review of papers submitted for publication.
But we do have several estimates of how much Medicare and Medicaid fraud cost.
Both programs need adjustment to improve long-term funding and, in the case of Medicare, reduce fraud and expenses.
Indeed, eliminating Medicare and Medicaid fraud, rather than White House tours, would offset the sequester cuts for the next decade.
On Tuesday, the president announced steps to fight Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, and Thursday he will announce steps to fight breast cancer, including making mammograms more easily available.
But by focusing on fraud, Medicare is missing the bigger point.
The committee began debating the compromise measure last week, with arguments erupting over Democratic proposals to reduce subsidies for some Medicare coverage while eliminating fraud and waste in the government health care plan for senior citizens.
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In his appearance by satellite at the AARP event in New Orleans, Obama responded to specific attacks on the health care law by Ryan and other Republicans, declaring the 2010 measure cuts waste and fraud in Medicare, provides preventive care to keep people healthier and reduces prescription drug costs for seniors.
We also must demand greater oversight and fraud prevention in Medicare and Medicaid -- the nation's health care programs for the seniors, the poor and the disabled.
So while there are some anti-fraud success stories, no one thinks we are even close to shutting down the massive fraud efforts in Medicare and Medicaid that would save billions of taxpayer dollars.
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