The Department of Justice has established a new Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force to coordinate action against foreign-based fraud schemes that target U.S. older adults, Attorney General William Barr announced Thursday.
The owner of an assisted living company has been sentenced to five years in jail, and the company will have to pay a fine of up to $2.05 million for Medicaid fraud that was discovered after a murder took place at one of the facilities. The government also is asking for $1.1 million in restitution.
An Arizona podiatrist has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $965,985 in restitution to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services after he admitted submitting false claims for care provided to assisted living residents, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
A laboratory sales representative has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for defrauding the Medicare program of more than $430,000 while convincing residents of affordable senior housing communities to submit to genetic testing without seeing a healthcare professional, according to the Justice Department.
The statistic was part of the “2018 Internet Crime Report” released Monday by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.
An older adult’s low awareness of scams may be an indicator that he or she may receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive impairment in the future, according to the results of a new study.
Former assisted living facility and nursing home owner Philip Esformes plans to appeal a jury’s finding, announced Friday, that he is guilty of 20 charges in a case that the federal government is calling “largest healthcare fraud scheme ever charged by the Justice Department.”
Philip Esformes, the owner of multiple Miami-area assisted living and skilled nursing facilities accused in 2016 of orchestrating a $1 billion healthcare fraud scheme, has been found guilty on more than 20 charges, including bribery and paying kickbacks.
Efforts by state Medicaid Fraud Control Units resulted in a total of 16 criminal convictions and $241,798 in criminal and civil monetary recoveries related to assisted living in fiscal year 2018, according to an annual report released Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
The government is broadening its enforcement umbrella, and it means heightened scrutiny and reporting responsibility for those providing care and services to older adults.
