by Advize Admin | Mar 18, 2022 | FWA
Last spring, Lags Medical Centers, a sprawling chain of pain clinics serving more than 20,000 patients in California, abruptly shuttered amid a cloaked state investigation into “credible allegations of fraud.” Tens of thousands of patients were left scrambling for...
by Advize Admin | Feb 11, 2022 | FWA, OIG Files
I spent about 25 years in federal law enforcement, and most of that time was as a Senior Special Agent at HHS-OIG. I loved working there, and I loved doing healthcare fraud investigations. When I was exploring retirement, and what I was interested in doing...
by Advize Admin | Feb 11, 2022 | FWA
A Texas consulting company that arranges spine surgery and other medical care for people injured in car crashes has come under scrutiny in a widening federal bribery investigation. Meg Health Care, run by Dallas personal injury attorney Manuel Green and his wife,...
by Advize Admin | Dec 17, 2021 | FWA
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — About 1 in 8 Californians who have died of covid lived in a nursing home. They were among the state’s most frail residents: nearly 9,400 mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles whom Californians entrusted to a nursing home’s...
by Advize Admin | Sep 24, 2021 | FWA
When I was first hired as an OIG Agent, I was told by numerous people that fraud in the Medicare Advantage (MA) world was difficult to commit, and ever more difficult to prove. To put it into context, it was the mid-1990s, and MA plans were not where they are...
by Advize Admin | Sep 24, 2021 | Commentary, FWA
What is most important: identify, eliminate, recover or (PLOT TWIST) prevent? Coming off of a strong week of meetings with my clients and listening to their real pain points coupled with listening to hours of the podcast Do You Know This Man, and incessant Elizabeth...
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