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Florida ALFs latest target of Medicaid fraud investigators
Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs), and the patient placement agencies with which they work, have become the latest target of Florida’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) investigators. Recently, these agencies have been conducting interviews with ALF owners, managers and marketing personnel at facilities where they suspect possible kickbacks in violations of the Florida Patient Brokering Statute…
Read MoreHome healthcare agencies, aides top fraud list
Home healthcare agencies and home healthcare aides topped the list of providers with the largest number of healthcare fraud convictions in 2014, according to a report released last month by the HHS Office of the Inspector General. Of the more than $1.9 billion recovered in total civil judgments and settlements, the federal government recovered $186…
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