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Guilty Verdict in $100 Million Healthcare Fraud Scheme

Written by Compliance Wave | November 18, 2019 at 7:01 PM

11/18/19: One hundred million dollars is serious money. Recently the manager who controlled multiple medical clinics in Brooklyn and Queens was found guilty for his role in a money laundering and kickback scheme that cost Medicare and Medicaid nearly that amount over a period of almost ten years...

More than 25 other individuals have been found guilty or pleaded guilty for their involvement in the same scheme.   Medicare fraud is enough to attract the interest of HHS-OIG, but what started out as kickbacks ended with a failure to report the crooked income to the IRS...