Last Monday, a federal government report announced that over $2.5 billion in Southern California Medicare fraud (and fraud elsewhere) was recovered in 2010. The 84 page report from the Justice and Health & Human Services found that the government’s anti-fraud programs appear to be working well – returning $5 for…
Many colorful stories of Los Angeles medical, dental, and chiropractic fraud have hit the news over the past year or so. The public may simply be too exhausted to pay attention to them anymore. This claim sounds absurd at first. After all, you’d think that stories about high crime involving…
The annals of Southern California medical, dental and chiropractic fraud are replete with pretty crazy stories. But a breaking story out of Columbus, Ohio may have even the most tawdry recent Los Angeles white collar crime stories beat. An Ohio area doctor, Charles Njoku, has been sentenced for manipulating his…
Although Southern California healthcare fraud is an enormous and perennial problem – witness the massive Armenian Mafia Medicare scam story that broke in October 2010 – the city of Miami, Florida remains the “national epicenter for Medicare fraud,” according to a story in the AP from five days ago. The…
The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg News and other major media services are reporting on an enormous Los Angeles medical fraud (and elsewhere) settlement involving three pharmaceutical firms: Abbott Laboratories, B. Braun Medical of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Roxane Laboratories of Columbus, Ohio. All told, the $420+ million settlement stemmed…
A 70-year old cardiologist, Dr. Walter Janke, and his wife, Lalita Janke, have agreed to pay $22.6 million to resolve Medicare fraud allegations – a stunning move that has analysts who follow events in the world of Los Angeles Medicare fraud talking. The Jankes had owned two large organizations –…
Southern California medical care fraud analysts have been wrapped up debating the massive October bust of a Medicare fraud ring allegedly tied to the Armenian mafia. But a breaking story out of Kansas has siphoned off a lot of media attention. Wayne W. Williamson, 67, an Olathe Kansas ex-physician, was…
Analysts who study health, chiropractic, and dental fraud in Los Angeles have been heatedly discussing a case out of Kansas. A former doctor, John R. Toth, pled guilty last week to a variety of federal counts, including a count of reckless and voluntary manslaughter, stemming from a bizarre scheme to…
Last week, a fugitive former doctor — Steven G. Moos — pled “not guilty” to a battery of charges, including government medical fraud. His bizarre circumstances have Los Angeles medical fraud experts talking. Particularly in light of last week’s massive bust of an alleged Armenian gang-centered Medicare fraud ring —…
This morning, federal prosecutors launched a multistate series of raids, arresting 73 people in conjunction with what may turn out to be the largest medical care fraud scheme in history of the United States — including many arrests here for health care fraud and insurance fraud in Los Angeles and…