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…
A few weeks ago, Insurance.com released its list of the 20 Top DUI Cities in the United States. If you have been arrested for Los Angeles DUI, Burbank DUI, Glendale DUI, or Pasadena DUI, you have a lot of company. The Insurance.com survey found that LA ranked as the seventh…
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…
Last week, two former operators of a Miami Clinic pled guilty in Federal Court to multiple counts of submitting false claims, committing fraud, and paying kickbacks, prompting a wide ranging discussion among Southern California medical fraud policy wonks. Jose Nogueira and his brother Rolando Nogueira operated a clinic for AIDS…
Los Angeles medical fraud analysts are closely following a breaking story out of Tampa that may have broader implications for white collar crime prosecution. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office staged a raid on a local medical rehabilitation clinic on July 16th and arrested four people in conjunction with an alleged…