by Erik Consorsha | Oct 8, 2021 | Commentary
Swoosh! – 18 former NBA players allegedly engaged in a scheme to defraud the NBA Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan – sending it home for $4M. How did they do it? Glad you asked. Well, the way everyone does it (well almost everyone), is by...
by Erik Consorsha | Jul 16, 2021 | FWA
Stephen Matthew Shumaker counted on in-home, in-person demonstrations to drive his water filtration business, which serves the Atlanta area. So when covid-19 hit and no one was inviting people indoors, he turned to the air-cleaning part of his operation. He sent cards...
by Erik Consorsha | Jun 18, 2021 | FWA
Dr. Kingsley R. Chin was little more than a decade out of Harvard Medical School when sales of his spine surgical implants took off. Chin has patented more than 40 pieces of such hardware, including doughnut-shaped plastic cages, titanium screws and other products...
by Erik Consorsha | May 7, 2021 | Healthcare
SACRAMENTO — Treating patients has become more expensive during the pandemic, and doctors and dentists don’t want to be on the hook for all the new costs. For instance, the box of 100 gloves that cost $2.39 in February 2020 costs $30 now, said Dr. Judee Tippett-Whyte,...
by Erik Consorsha | Dec 18, 2017 | Compliance, Fraud, FWA
Medicare fraud maintains its position among the fastest growing crimes in the United States. The government loses nearly $75 billion a year to Medicare fraud; which has led to the conception of several anti-fraud initiatives, including the OIG’s Operation Whack-A-Mole...
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