Common Examples of Medicare, Medicaid Fraud
Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Examples and Steps to Ensure You Don’t Commit It A medical doctor invoiced his patient’s Medicare insurance for both the services he actually delivered and for services that were not delivered. He fabricated his patient’s medical records to indicate office visits and treatments that never took place. A gerontologist obtained the outcomes of medical testing executed by a diagnostic firm for her interpretation of the results. She billed the patient’s Medicare insurance as if she performed both the testing and interpretation of the tests. A family physician worked at a medical center where low-income and needy patients were enlisted to submit to needless exams. While he consulted with few patients, medical records were forged by a physician’s assistant to support the billing of Medicaid for medical procedures never performed. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease were sitting unsupervised inside a small room of a medical psychological care facility watching the ...