Jacques Roy and six others from North Texas were indicted in the largest healthcare fraud case in U.S. history (CBS DFW). Dr. Roy and the others have been accused of cheating almost $380 million from Medicare and Medicaid between January 2006 and November 2011 (CBS DFW). He owned and operated Medistat Group Associates, an association of healthcare providers that provided home health certifications and performed home visits. Home health certifications are needed prior to Medicare paying for these services. According to court documents, between January 2006 and November 2011, Medistat certified, “more than 11,000 Medicare beneficiaries for home health services and had more patients than any other medical practice in the United States”.
Kaiser told the public health agency on Feb. 5 that two employees inappropriately accessed the records of Suleman, who gave birth on Jan. 26 to the world’s only surviving octuplets, according to a Public Health Department report issued Thursday. By Feb. 20, six employees had been identified as having accessed records without authorization. On March 20, 17 more employees were added to the list, including two doctors, for a total of 23. Ornstein (2009). Of those, 15 were either terminated or resigned under pressure and eight faced other disciplinary actions, the state said in a report.
(April 8, 2008). Safe Communities, Fair Sentences: In drug testing of public assistance recipients as a condition of eligibility . Retrieved from https://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform/drug-testing-public-assistance-recipients-condition-eligibility. Almasi, D. (November 22, 2011). National Center for Public Policy: In federal judge's ruling is wrong, says scholar: The three dozen states considering drug tests for welfare recipients can do so under the law and U.S. constitution.
Luis Cholotío-García ENC1102 – Professor Fiedler April 24, 2012 Research Project The Fiscal Effects of a Comprehensive Immigration Reform The critics of immigration reform declare that legalizing 11.5 million immigrants will cost billions of dollars, which will increase the federal debt. Moreover, they blame the undocumented population for taking the jobs of American citizens, and for contributing negatively to the recession that the country is currently experiencing. However, pro-immigration reform studies have concluded the opposite stating that the law will have a dramatic, positive economic impact. Immigrants arrived freely in the United States of America since before the settlement of the thirteen colonies in 1776. Since then—236
Columbia HCA Report The Columbia HCA scandal was the largest health care fraud case in U. S. history at the time of settling. The investigation of this scandal nets record total of $1.7 billion. HCA agreed to pay the United States $631 million in civil penalties and damages arising from false claims the government alleged it submitted to Medicare and other federal health programs in June of 2003. This settlement marks the conclusion of the most comprehensive health care fraud investigation ever undertaken by the Justice Department, working with the Departments of Health and Human Services and Defense, the Office of Personnel Management and the states. HCA’s civil liability for false claims resulting from a variety of allegedly unlawful
An avid example is United States v. Domanski (2008). In this highly publicized recent case, the defendants’ indictment and subsequent guilty plea for embezzling over $1.3 million from a credit union in Nebraska; FNEEG, saw her pay said amount in return for leniency during sentencing. In conclusion, the recent increase in cases of embezzlement of public funds has had various economic and legal implications. In regard to economic repercussions, embezzlement has necessitated the need for agencies and corporations to implement more stringent measures for auditing organizational and agency expenditures. Additionally, within the legal sphere, this has led to more punitive sentences being handed out in a bid to discourage this growing
Mary Martinez Political Science SOC 215 Professor Saimbert September 6, 2012 Health Care Reform Bill The Healthcare Reform/Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress, and signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. By a vote of 219 to 212, the House of Representatives passed the health care reform bill. On June 28, 2012 the Supreme Court rendered a final decision to uphold the health care law. The Health Care Reform Act allows individuals, families, and business owners to control their health care. It reduces premium costs for working families and small businesses in particular, by providing billions of dollars in tax relief.
National Debt At one point our national debt was only 34,000 dollars that was way back in 1834, today in December of 2012 our debt has gone up to about 59 trillion dollars. Many people don’t even know anything about our debt situation. It’s never fully explained on how we got so far in the red zone, it’s always hidden away like a dark secret of our government. Truthfully there are many explanations for our nation’s debt crisis. The U.S. government has stolen trillions of dollars from future generations of Americans, and we continue to add well over a hundred million dollars to that total every single day.
Illegal immigrants who do not pay taxes are costing the American tax-payers because of their visits to the hospital and the education that America provides for their children. "The economic and social consequences of illegal immigration... are staggering... Illegal aliens have cost billions of taxpayer-funded dollars for medical services. Dozens of hospitals in Texas, New Mexico Arizona, and California, have been forced to close or face bankruptcy because of federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens…The total K-12 school expenditure for illegal immigrants costs the states $7.4 billion annually" (Haughen
A good plan to get rid of illegal immigrants in the U.S. will remove illegal immigrants in a very feasible way, and would not cost our country a fortune. Illegal immigrants have been a problem lingering in the U.S. for many years now. In the recent past, Americans just started noticing how illegal immigrants living in the U.S. can cause many problems. A shocking statistic is that 1/3 of all federal and state prisons are filled with illegal immigrants. The problem with this is that it is costing American tax payers $1.6 billion annually.