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Congress Set to Approve $1.7B to Fight Health Care Fraud

By Robert David, Esq.

Congress is moving forward toward granting the Obama administration's request for a record $1.7 billion to fight health-care fraud, in part to almost triple investigations into crime rings that steal from Medicare. The money, included in both House and Senate versions of a fiscal 2011 spending bill for the Health and Human Services Department, amounts to a $250 million increase. Almost half of that, $116 million, would go toward expanding a program of fraud ?strike forces? to 20 cities from seven. The health care fraud strike force program has stopped fraud schemes totaling about $1.9 billion and led to charges against more than 800 people. The amount of fraud the strike forces have deterred from happening is ?far higher but nearly impossible to calculate? according to former United States Department of Justice Kirk Ogrosky, a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, who began the strike force program in Miami in 2007...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on August 08, 2010 (boomark / email).