Bad Actors Round Up (November)

A few recent healthcare fraudsters and compliance busters in various sectors have been rounded up. Under Pharma Fraud, a physician representing Avanir received more than $300,000 in kickbacks for writing more than 10,000 prescriptions for the drug Nuedexta and another $1,500 per each presentation, In the Fraudulent Billing Schemes category, a psychiatrist was caught improperly billing over $1.36M to Medicare over the course of seven years. A national telemedicine fraud scheme was uncovered by RediDoc and its owners who pushed patients to try DME and gave kickbacks to physicians.

 

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