Feb 11, 2025 | Health Care, Health Care Fraud
The DOJ announced that four pharmacists have been sentenced for their roles in a massive healthcare fraud scheme that defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan out of over $13 million. The pharmacists will now face prison sentences ranging...
Feb 11, 2025 | Health Care, Health Care Fraud
On February 6, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that four pharmacists were sentenced in connection with a $13 million health care fraud case involving Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The individuals received varying sentences...
Feb 10, 2025 | Health Care Fraud
Dr. Adrian Dexter Talbot, a 59-year-old physician from Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for his involvement in an illegal drug distribution scheme. Talbot was found guilty of conspiring to distribute over 1.8 million doses of Schedule...
Feb 4, 2025 | Health Care, Health Care Fraud
In a recent case, Petros Fichidzhyan, a 43-year-old man from Granada Hills, California, has pleaded guilty to charges of health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering in connection with a fraudulent scheme that deceived Medicare out of more than...
Jan 31, 2025 | Fraud Investigations, Government Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, White Collar Crime
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced that it had indicted the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center (CRMC) with healthcare fraud and conspiracy in relation to unnecessary gynecological and other procedures performed by one of its employed physicians....
Jan 14, 2025 | Administrative Law, False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Health Care Fraud
Late last year, President Biden signed the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2025. This alone is not newsworthy, as this has happened every year since the NDAA was introduced in 1961. Generally speaking, the NDAA governs Department of...
