Showing posts with label Medicaid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicaid. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Anchorage Doctor Sentenced to 3 ½ years for Fraudulently Billing Medicaid and Tampering with Physical Evidence

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State of Alaska Press Release here The Alaska Department of Law, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, announced today that 40-year-old Dr. Shubhr...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Timberlawn mental hospital cut off from federal funding over safety issues

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From a much long report in the Dallas News Federal regulators are taking the rare step of kicking one of North Texas’ largest psychiatric...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Poor treatment at Lehigh Valley mental health clinics was evident, patients say

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From a longer report in the Lehigh Valley Live website Photo caption: Lehigh Valley Community Mental Health Centers Inc. at 226 Northampt...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

N.J. medical bribe scheme reached grand scale

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Selections from the extensive report on NewJersey.com The first hint of the vast bribery scheme came with the arrests of a North Jersey d...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

GAO Finds Major Overuse of Antipsychotic Drugs by the Elderly

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From the Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog In late 2014 we blogged about the accusations levied against Dr. Michael J. Reinstein about his ...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Psychiatrist Settles Pleads Guilty and Settles Civil Claims

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As seen on the Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog Background A few months ago, an Illinois psychiatrist was suspended indefinitely from p...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Jurors to decide fate of South Florida psychiatrist, others in Medicare fraud trial

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Highlights from an extended report in the Miami Herald Barry Kaplowitz was a psychiatrist with a “robotic” signature who signed off on t...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Chicago psychiatrist pleads guilty to taking drug kickbacks

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As reported by ABC channel 7 in Chicago A long-time Chicago psychiatrist pleaded guilty Friday to receiving illegal kickbacks and benefits...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois filed a single felony charge against Dr. Michael Reinstein, a Chicago psychiatrist took kickbacks for prescribing an antipsychotic drug

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As reported on ProPublica Be sure to the original for many extar links related to the story A former Chicago psychiatrist who was the na...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Newton charged with healthcare fraud

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As reported in the Shippensburg News Chronicle on Decenmber 5th, 2014 The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania,...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Mental Health Ranks High on Fraud Scale

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A recent column by Richard Kusserow Richard P. Kusserow served as DHHS Inspector General for 11 years. He currently is CEO of Strategic M...

Mental health scams target Medicare and Medicaid

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As seen in this report Fraud involving Medicare and Medicaid mental health benefits has been "a special enforcement problem that stre...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Mental health provider shuts doors after state pulls Medicaid payments

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Another Chapter in the Decline of Psychiatry, from a report by the Arkansas News Bureau A Southeast Arkansas child mental health provider c...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

New And Improved Drugs? No Thanks

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As seen on CNN Money New York psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman has heard Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) sales pitch for the new anti-schiz...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Screening brings labeling, drugs

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Of Interest is this letter to the editor in the Boston Globe by a psychiatrist from the State of New York, regarding the recent start of me...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

More on the NY state audit of Mental Health Care Providers

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Further details on a NY state audit. As seen in this report , with a link to our earlier story here . A psychiatrist improperly billed Medic...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

NC Psychiatric Hospital Fails Surprise Inspection, Could Lose Accreditation. Director Replaced

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Report from Asheville, North Carolina. A new director was appointed at Broughton Hospital on Monday after the hospital failed a surprise acc...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Antipsychotic Drugs Abused as Chemical Restraints for Elderly

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The WSJ Health Blog is carrying this item pointing to this expose in The Wall Street Journal Nursing homes are loading up patients on anti...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

Massachusetts finds 35 children on excessive psychiatric drugs, more to come

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From a longer report in the Boston Globe Following the death of a 4-year-old Hull girl from an overdose of psychiatric drugs last December, ...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

Psychologist guilty of fraud

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from this report out of Corpus Christi A 53-year-old psychologist with a professional office in Corpus Christi has been convicted of defraud...