Skip to main content
Nevada Public Radio
  • News 88.9 KNPR
  • Classical 89.7 kcnv
  • Magazine Desert Companion
  • About

    How to reach us

    1289 S. Torrey Pines Dr.
    Las Vegas, NV 89146

    Main Number:  1-702-258-9895
    Toll Free: 1-888-258-9895

    More contact info

     

     

      • Staff
      • Board of Directors
      • Employment
      • CPB Compliance
      • Our Policies
      • Our Business Members
      • Listen on the Radio
      • Other Ways to Listen
      • Sign-up for NVPR News
      • FCC Public Inspection File
      • CPB Funding
      • History
    • News 88.9 KNPR
    • Classical 89.7 KCNV
    • Desert Companion
  • Programs

    On News 88.9 KNPR

    On Classical 89.7

    News

    • All Things Considered
    • BBC World Service
    • Here & Now
    • Hidden Brain
    • It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
    • KNPR's State of Nevada
    • Marketplace
    • Morning Edition
    • On Point
    • On the Media
    • Planet Money - How I Built This
    • Reveal
    • The Daily
    • The Takeaway
    • Weekend Edition Saturday
    • Weekend Edition Sunday

    Humor

    • Ask Me Another
    • Live Wire!
    • Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

    Arts & Life

    • Bullseye
    • Desert Bloom
    • Fresh Air
    • Nevada Yesterdays
    • Radiolab
    • Snap Judgment
    • Sound Opinions
    • TED Radio Hour
    • The Business
    • The Moth
    • This American Life

    Classical

    • Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    • Classical Music
    • Concierto
    • From the Top
    • Music from the Hearts of Space
    • New York Philharmonic
    • Performance Today
    • Pipedreams
    • Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
    • Sunday Baroque
    • SymphonyCast

    Special Projects

    • Race and Racism in Nevada
    • StoryCorps Virtual: Las Vegas
    • Coronavirus - What You Need to Know
    • Fifth Street
  • Projects
  • Support
      • Support NVPR
      • Contact Member Services
      • Corporate Support
      • Donate your Car
      • Give Voice Major Gift Initiative
      • myPublicRadio
      • NVPR Facebook Fundraisers FAQ
      • Planned Giving
      • Volunteer
    • myPublicRadio
    • Donate Now
        • Member Benefits

    Main menu

    Search

    Listen

    News 88.9 KNPR
    Classical 89.7 KCNV
    Podcasts view all

    member station

    Support
    Subscribe to medicare fraud

    medicare fraud

    NPR
    Shots - Health News
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email

    Whistleblower Alleges Fraud At A Large Medicare Advantage Plan In Seattle

    Oct 18, 2019
    As the Trump administration calls for expanding access to Medicare Advantage, a federal whistleblower lawsuit accuses a large Medicare Advantage plan of bilking Medicare out of $8 million.
    NPR
    Shots - Health News
    While prescriptions for durable medical equipment, such as orthotic braces or wheelchairs, have long been a staple of Medicare fraud schemes, some alleged scammers are now using telemedicine and unscrupulous health providers to prescribe unneeded equipme
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email

    Phone Scammers And 'Teledoctors' Charged With Preying On Seniors In Fraud Case

    Oct 07, 2019
    Officials warn that schemes devised to steal from Medicare have embraced telemedicine. One man was prescribed $4,000 of medical equipment he didn't need and never asked for.
    NPR
    Shots - Health News
    In the alleged scheme, Medicare beneficiaries were offered, at no cost to them, genetic testing to estimate their cancer risk.
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email

    U.S. Justice Department Charges 35 People In Fraudulent Genetic Testing Scheme

    Sep 27, 2019
    Doctors, lab technicians and telemarketers from around the U.S. were among those arrested in the investigation of a scheme that the DOJ alleges defrauded seniors and Medicare.
    NPR
    Shots - Health News
    Medicare Advantage health plans, mostly run by private insurance companies, have enrolled more than 22 million seniors and people with disabilities — more than 1 in 3 people who are on some sort of Medicare plan.
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email

    Journalists File Lawsuit To Force Feds To Release Medicare Advantage Audits

    Sep 27, 2019
    A lawsuit filed by Kaiser Health News under the Freedom of Information Act could spur the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to release audits that document up to $650 million in overcharges.
    NPR
    Shots - Health News
    The same steep growth and use of big data that attracted venture capital cash to companies that administer Medicare Advantage plans have led to scrutiny of the companies by government officials. Federal audits estimate such plans nationwide have overchar
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email

    Missouri Firm With Silicon Valley Ties Faces Medicare Billing Scrutiny

    Jul 23, 2019
    A federal audit and a whistleblower lawsuit allege that Medicare Advantage plans from the St. Louis-based Essence Group Holdings Corp. have significantly overcharged taxpayers.
    NPR
    Shots - Health News
    Good hospice care at the end of life can be a godsend to patients and their families, all agree, whether the care comes at home, or at an inpatient facility like this AIDS hospice. Still, oversight of the industry is important, federal investigators say.
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email

    HHS Inspector General's Report Finds Flaws And Fraud In U.S. Hospice Care

    Jul 31, 2018
    Medicare pays more than $16 billion a year for hospice services. But a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services says hospice patients don't always get the care they're promised.
    • Listen Download
    KNPR
    Newscast headlines

    Renown Health Pays $9.5M To Settle Medicare Fraud Suit

    Jul 01, 2016

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — The operator of the largest hospital and health care network in northern Nevada has agreed to pay the Justice Department $9.5 million to settle allegations of patient-overcharging and Medicare fraud.

    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email
    NPR
    Shots - Health News

    Whistleblower Says Medicare Advantage Plans Padded Charges In Home Visits

    Aug 12, 2015
    Medicare Advantage health plans are privately run, but reimbursed by Medicare. A Texas lawsuit claims that, to inflate charges, 30 Advantage plans in 15 states exaggerated how sick patients were.
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email
    NPR
    Shots - Health News
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email

    Fraud Still Plagues Medicare's Prescription Drug Program

    Jun 22, 2015
    More than 1,400 pharmacies billed for questionable prescriptions last year, according to the inspector general at Health and Human Services. That includes prescriptions for commonly abused opioids.
    NPR
    The Two-Way
    Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks about a federal crackdown on Medicare fraud. With her are HHS Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson (from left), HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, FBI Director James B. Comey and Assistant Attorney General for the
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email

    Doctors, Nurses Among 243 Charged In Million-Dollar Medicare Schemes

    Jun 19, 2015
    One doctor alone is accused of causing nearly $23 million in fraud losses, including "over 1,000 expensive power wheelchairs ... that were not medically necessary and often not provided."
    NPR
    Shots - Health News

    Documents Reveal Secret Legal Battle Over Medicare Overbilling

    Jun 17, 2015
    The federal government overpaid for nearly half of the patients of a Medicare Advantage plan, a Medicare audit found. At issue is whether insurers "upcode" diagnoses to reap bigger payments.
    Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Email
    • home
    • How to reach us
    • About
    • Support
    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • NVPR News
    • Instagram

    © All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy

    PRXNPRAPMBBC INN