By M.B. Pell and Kristina CookeNEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 (Reuters) – A doctor who took kickbacks from a Pennsylvania hospice involved in a multimillion-dollar fraud. An Ohio psychiatrist who billed for treating no-show patients. A Georgia optometrist who claimed he conducted 177 eye exams in one day.
Their transgressions vary. What these doctors have in common is that each was paid by a state Medicaid health insurance program after being kicked out of another state’s Medicaid system or the federal Medicare program.
That’s not supposed to happen. The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as it is popularly known, explicitly requires that states suspend the billing privileges of most providers who have been “terminated” or “revoked” by another state or Medicare.
Source: SPECIAL REPORT-Banned from Medicare, still billing Medicaid