SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For Janette Bissada, the cost of the pandemic has been high. For the better part of two years, the East Bay senior has stayed home, being mindful of COVID safety protocols and ...
An audit found a fraudulent scheme involving unwanted COVID-19 tests charged to Medicare may have cost taxpayers as much as $454 million, 11 News Investigates has learned. What seemed like a one-off ...
The COVID tests were piling up on Sylvia's front porch. 20? OK I don't, maybe more. I don't know. I lost count. So frequently that you lost count. Exactly. Companies were billing Medicare on her ...
Find: Claiming Social Security, SNAP and Medicare Is Now Easier Thanks to Executive Order — What’s Changing? The Biden administration announced back in December that private insurers would have to ...
COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Original Medicare’s Part B covers COVID tests to detect the virus when a person receives them in a laboratory. In addition, Part A may cover lab ...
This article outlines the evolving rules surrounding Medicare telehealth coverage, highlighting key legislative changes and ...
Federal authorities charge Syed Mehdi Hussain and Syed Murtuza Kablazada with health care fraud, accusing them of defrauding Medicare out of $136 million through a scheme involving COVID-19 tests that ...
Patients Choice Laboratories allegedly knowingly submitted claims to Medicare for tests that were either "medically ...
It's alleged that Patients Choice Laboratories submitted Medicare claims for respiratory pathogen panels that were medically unnecessary.
People covered either by original Medicare or Medicare Advantage will be able to get over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at no cost starting in early spring. Under the new initiative, Medicare ...
Patients Choice Laboratories (PCL) has agreed to pay $9.6 million to the state of Indiana to settle a case involving false ...