United States:
Government's Health Care Fraud "Cash Cow" Keeps Mooing (Video Content)
17 December 2014
Foley & Lardner
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The U.S. government has changed up its approach to criminal
health care fraud prosecutions, joining forces with fiscal
intermediaries on the civil side to ramp up investigations, and
this new tactic has proven to be a cash cow. Health care fraud
prosecutions are up 75 percent since 2007 and, in 2014 alone,
netted the U.S. government more than $2.3 billion. In a
conversation with Mimesis Law's Lee Pacchia, Foley Partner Lisa
Noller discusses the government's new approach and what
companies can expect for 2015 and beyond.
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