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Arizona telehealth company owners plead guilty in $64M scheme

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The owners of a national telehealth company pleaded guilty this week to charges of conspiracy to violate the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and to commit healthcare fraud. Law enforcement agencies have ramped up the pressure on telehealth fraud, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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DOJ charges dozens in $1.1B telehealth fraud crackdown

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Justice announced this past week that it was bringing criminal charges against 138 total defendants for their alleged participation in various healthcare fraud schemes, resulting in about $1.4 billion of that loss involved allegedly fraudulent claims related to telemedicine. billion in alleged losses. More than $1.1

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Florida man pleads guilty in scheme exploiting amended telehealth restrictions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

According to the agency , the conspiracy involved paying a telemedicine company to arrange for doctors to authorize medically unnecessary genetic testing. The scheme, as outlined in court documents, exploited COVID-19-era amendments to telehealth restrictions. WHY IT MATTERS. Cantrell at the time of the arrests.

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How Our CTO Shannon Murphy is Changing Healthcare

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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.