Medicare beneficiaries are being targeted by scammers offering free genetic testing in exchange for sensitive information, according to the Better Business Bureau June 11. The organization reported a ...

A new coverage determination will prevent Medicare patients with certain cancers from accessing genetic testing, a move that advocates and testing companies say will severely limit early interventions ...

A doctor who used to live in Selah was convicted of conspiring to defraud Medicare. Dr. David Antonio Becerril, 69, was found guilty Monday for his role in a scheme to falsely bill Medicare for ...

Last year, Jean Bound received a package with COVID tests that she hadn’t ordered. She called the company whose name was on the packing list to say she hadn’t ordered them. In response, she was told ...

Other cases charge an additional 170 defendants with various other healthcare fraud schemes involving over $1.84 billion in allegedly false and fraudulent claims to Medicare, Medicaid and private ...

Medicare-eligible patients with advanced cancers will have access to genomic tests under a national coverage determination CMS finalized March 16. The determination covers next-generation sequencing ...

A federal jury has convicted a Louisiana nurse practitioner in a shocking $12.1 million healthcare fraud scheme that preyed on vulnerable patients and defrauded Medicare. Scharmaine Lawson Baker, 58, ...

Dear Toni: A hospice agent recently came knocking on the doors in my neighborhood saying he represented Medicare. He was giving away hospice gifts and told me that I could receive these Medicare ...

I recently had a hospice agent knocking on the doors in my neighborhood who said he represented Medicare. He was giving away free hospice gifts and told me that I could receive these Medicare services ...

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — A Georgia man will have to pay $7.2 million and spend almost four years in federal prison for his involvement in a Medicare fraud conspiracy. The U.S. Department of Justice said ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A Louisiana nurse practitioner was convicted on Thursday, July 24, for her role in a $12.1 million scheme to defraud Medicare. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 58-year ...

American Psychiatric Centers agreed to pay $2.75 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled the government for services not provided or sufficiently documented, the Department of Justice (DOJ) ...