The Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit receives 75 percent of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant award totaling $1,332,724 for Federal fiscal year ...

The owner and operator of a San Francisco-based home health agency received a sentence of two years in federal prison. Veronica Katz — the owner and ...

California physician Lilit Baltaian, MD, has pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud related to her false home health certifications and fraudulent billings.

This is the first of three guest commentaries by Charles Johnson, former deputy commissioner of the Department of Human ...

Katz, the owner and operator of HealthNow Home Healthcare and Hospice, pleaded guilty to one count of health care fraud on April ... "Start of Care" forms, and billing Medicare for services ...

December 10, 2024 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Veronica Katz was sentenced on Monday to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay $543,634.34 in restitution for committing health care fraud. The ...

The Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) recently followed up on a 2023 commitment to supplement ...

The indictment charges that in August 2019, Jordan started soliciting kickbacks to refer urine samples to drug testing laboratories that could be billed to Medicaid and Medicare. Jordan solicited ...

State leaders have shown a decadeslong antipathy toward the health insurance program. If Trump makes severe reductions, it’s ...

A physician from Porter Ranch has pleaded guilty to health care fraud arising from her false home health certifications and related fraudulent billings to Medicare totaling at least $1.4 million. Dr.

“It is imperative to make sure the people of Washington are compensated when harm is done,” DFI Director Charlie Clark said. “As the state’s mortgage industry regulator, DFI wants to ensure all ...