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Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Efforts Result in R...

HHS News and Events  Mon, 02/13/2012 - 23:01

WASHINGTON –Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report showing that the government’s health care fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered nearly $4.1 billion in taxpayer dollars in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011.  This is the highest annual amount ever recovered from individuals and companies who attempted to defraud seniors and taxpayers or who sought payments to which they were not entitled. 


 

Medicare fraud strike force charges 91 individuals for approxima...

HHS News and Events  Tue, 09/06/2011 - 23:01

Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that a nationwide takedown by Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in eight cities has resulted in charges against 91 defendants, including doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $295 million in false billing.


 

Holder having surgery for cracked tooth

Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:51

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder had emergency oral surgery Thursday to remove a cracked tooth....