With close to three thousand attendants, the HCCA Compliance Institute 2017 kicked off another successful summit and reached a wider audience than we’ve ever seen before. Those numbers also highlight how healthcare com...

It’s an event that will go down in history: the Great Oscar Debacle of 2017. Nobody could possibly forget that fateful moment when Faye Dunaway attempted to regroup from a dazed and confused Warren Beatty reaction to b...

It’s no secret that Republicans want to replace Obamacare with another option. According to polls, 53% of Americans disapprove of ACA, and 45% have shown their approval. With the public as well as party lines divided o...

Auction Or Trial Concept With Auctioneers Or Judges Gavel And Scattered Money Heap On Wooden Table, Close Up, This week there was a stunning announcement made by the OIG regarding a New Jersey OB/GYN doctor that a...

There is no question that a large number of social video challenges have been extremely useful for all kinds of purposes and the latest trend is called The Mannequin Challenge. We have already seen other popular challeng...

Florida Medicaid Fraud   Medicaid fraud in Florida results in losses of more than 6 billion dollars each year. Such is the state’s reputation for being a hotspot for this kind of fraud that Nigerian and Russian scams...

  Positive Numbers: Highlights of the 2016 Spring Report from the HHS OIG One thing evident in the recently released Spring Report for 2016 from The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector G...

Nurse Fraud Nurses have become heavily involved in a spate of health-care related fraud news in recent years. One of the most controversial reports of fraud from the Department of Justice was in 2011, which involved ei...

Just a few months into 2016, and already, a mother-daughter tandem is causing ripples in the health care pond by pleading guilty to second-degree Medicaid fraud in Hawaii last March 9.   The “mother” in this c...