Health Care Fraud

As a medical professional, you always seek to provide competent care on a physical level. But you are also in the business of making money, and it can be easy to overstep boundaries in this field. Sometimes, through intentional or unintentional overreach, you could...

Physicians are widely regarded as among the most honest class of professionals. Yet doctors are also human beings, and they occasionally succumb to temptation, especially when they discover the ease of extracting excessive payments from insurance companies and...

As a doctor you took an oath to do no harm to patients. While it is understandable that this oath includes avoiding causing patients physical harm, patients can also be financially harmed if their doctor commits healthcare fraud. While many times healthcare fraud can...

A key to starting, building and maintaining a successful medical practice is based on reputation. To have allegations about any type of fraud can be severely negative to the medical professional’s business. This can go beyond the criminal charges and hinder the...

Fraud through telemedicine is happening. It even outpaces substance abuse treatment facilities fraud and illegal opioid distribution schemes by as much as three times. Residents of New York may want to know more about this type of fraud. According to legal sources,...

Health care fraud occurs everywhere, including the New York City metro area. There are three forms of medical billing fraud that are the most common. What is medical billing fraud? Medical billing fraud is a type of fraud that occurs when a health care provider...

There’s a lot on the line when you’re accused of healthcare fraud. Your career can certainly be in jeopardy, but so, too, can your financial stability and your freedom. That’s why if you’re under investigation for healthcare fraud you need to understand the process...

When people see doctors in New York the health care provider typically bills their health insurance company for payment. Many people have private health insurance through their employer or pay for it on their own. Many other people have Medicare or Medicaid in place...

When an individual, health care provider or company defrauds the federal government, insurers, or state or federal aid programs such as New York Medicaid, they have committed health care fraud. Persons convicted can receive years in prison with costly fines. Federal...