Last year, Jean Bound received a package with COVID tests that she hadn’t ordered. She called the company whose name was on the packing list to say she hadn’t ordered them. In response, she was told ...

Medicare fraud spikes during open enrollment. Here’s how to protect yourself. Medicare’s open-enrollment period is a time for beneficiaries to make important healthcare decisions, but the annual ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — More than two dozen Medicare recipients from across the country have contacted WPTV with reports of fraudulent billing from a Delray Beach company, with claims totaling more ...

The company named on the bill, Sunshine Senior Solutions, has now been flagged by some health networks, including Medicare.

When I took on the role of leading Medicare, one of my primary goals was to crush the chronic fraud, waste, and abuse in the program. Ensuring that taxpayer dollars are used responsibly and that ...

Medicare fraud is big business, and like most businesses, it has adapted to the new environment of the COVID-19 pandemic. “The public health emergency created an opportunity for fraudsters to modify ...

Two men in the Houston area found that thousands of dollars in medical supplies were billed to their Medicare accounts for items they never ordered or received. The bills listed a Florida company, ...

Dear Toni: A hospice agent recently came knocking on the doors in my neighborhood saying he represented Medicare. He was giving away hospice gifts and told me that I could receive these Medicare ...

The federal government has upped its scrutiny of Medicare fraud in recent years, but no investigation appears bigger than its probe of UnitedHealth Group. It’s the biggest because UnitedHealth is the ...

I recently had a hospice agent knocking on the doors in my neighborhood who said he represented Medicare. He was giving away free hospice gifts and told me that I could receive these Medicare services ...

All these examples spanned multiple years, clearly indicating there was not enough oversight. Faulty oversight was compounded by lax enforcement, as seen in the Arizona case, where only 5 percent of ...