The Department of Justice fought in the 11th Circuit Thursday to preserve the conviction of a pharmacist who prosecutors say participated in a half-baked scheme to fraudulently bill millions of dollars for topical creams.
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President Biden said the objective is to “undo the damage that Trump has done” to the Affordable Care Act and to women’s reproductive health.
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The Trump administration is trying to revive the president’s stalled election-eve plan to send millions of Medicare recipients a $200 prescription discount card.
Read more“The federal government discriminates against Americans who live in Puerto Rico,” a federal judge said, ruling that Puerto Rican citizens are entitled to the same Supplemental Security Income, food stamps and Medicare Part D benefits that are offered to mainland Americans.
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A Florida eye doctor and one-time friend of New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez will remain behind bars in light of the 11th Circuit’s Friday decision to uphold his conviction and sentence for a historic Medicare fraud.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit upheld the convictions of a Michigan doctor whose clinic, Compassionate Doctors, collected millions in Medicare payments and illegal kickbacks for fraudulent prescriptions written to fake patients, who were “generally small-time criminals and drug dealers,” according to the court
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At greater risk from Covid-19, some seniors face added anxiety due to delays obtaining Medicare coverage.
Read moreThe financial condition of the government’s two biggest benefit programs remains shaky, with Medicare expected to become insolvent in just six years, while Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits starting in 2035, the government said Wednesday.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Wednesday rolled out its plan to reimburse health care providers that treat patients with Covid-19 who do not have health insurance.
Read moreCovenant Medical Center and 52 other hospitals sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he failed to properly calculate payments for inpatient hospital days for Medicare patients.
Read moreTwelve hospitals, in four states, sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he illegally reduced the number of residents they could claim per year under a Medicare program for hospitals to train medical residents.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of the U.S. government against a company that provided clinical testing services for nursing home residents, finding that the company obtained millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements for miles their technicians did not actually travel.
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Fighting to seal a historic health care fraud conviction Friday, government lawyers reminded the 11th Circuit that, in his heyday as an eye doctor, Salomon Melgen had billed Medicare more than 90 times for diagnostic testing on a patient’s prosthetic eye.
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A government watchdog plans to launch a nationwide probe into how telemarketers may be getting hold of seniors’ personal Medicare information, a red flag for potential fraud.
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President Donald Trump released his final budget before the 2020 election on Monday, calling for cuts to public programs like Medicaid while boosting defense spending.
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Confronted with the threat of trillion-dollar-plus deficits for as far as the eye can see, President Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year that rehashes previously rejected spending cuts while leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits untouched.
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Kim Motl doesn’t work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Motl pressed the Democratic presidential candidate about her “Medicare for All” plan, which would replace private insurance with a government-run system.
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Medicare’s revamped prescription plan finder can steer unwitting seniors to coverage that costs much more than they need to pay, according to people who help with sign-ups and program experts.
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