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Cutting Edge Medicare Fraud

By Robert David, Esq.

Florida, New York and California are generally on the cutting edge of Medicare fraud, and many hours of law enforcement time is taken to uncover the next wave of perceived schemes. However, fresh from Georgia: hyperbaric oxygen therapy fraud. A clinic owner in Georgia plead guilty to receiving over $1,000,0000 in reimbursement for treatment, ?Hyperbaric chambers have a number of legitimate medical uses, as varied as helping burn victims and even scuba divers in their recovery. This defendant, however, turned a hyperbaric chamber into a means of generating over a million dollars in fraudulent claims?? said United States Attorney David E. Nahmias. To read more about this, click here While it appears on the surface that fraudulent claims, particularly arising out of a single clinic would be quickly discovered and it would also seem that there are not enough burn victims or senior citizen scuba divers with the bends to make such treatment viable in the Medicare context, those are not the only reimbursable services...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).