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Dozens charged in sprawling $1.2B telehealth and genetics fraud crackdown

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The coordinated investigations primarily targeted the alleged payment of kickbacks and bribes by lab operators in exchange for the referral of patients by medical professionals working with allegedly fraudulent telemedicine and digital health companies. healthcare system at the expense of patients. Polite, Jr. in a statement.

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Arizona telehealth company owners plead guilty in $64M scheme

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"From September 2017 through December 2019, Luke and Laughlin conspired together and with others to unlawfully enrich themselves by submitting and causing to be submitted false and fraudulent claims to federal healthcare benefit programs," the officials alleged. ON THE RECORD.

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$6B fraud bust includes numerous telehealth schemes

Henry Kotula

Dive Brief: Federal agencies have charged 345 people across the country, including more than 100 providers and four telehealth executives, with submitting more than $6 billion in fraudulent claims to payers. billion was connected to telemedicine schemes and about $800 million each to substance abuse treatment and illegal opioid distribution.

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How Our CTO Shannon Murphy is Changing Healthcare

GlobalMed

As the world leader in evidence-based telemedicine solutions, GlobalMed’s mission is to transform healthcare across the planet. That may sound like an audacious goal, but we have the advanced solutions to make it happen – and now we have an audacious new technology leader to accelerate our telemedicine scope.