$15 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Busted
On Friday, the Department of Justice announced that it had obtained a sentence in the case of Hoi Yat Kam, a New York based physician. Kam and his collaborators are accused of filing as much as $15 million worth of false claims for payment to Medicare.
“Stealing money from taxpayers unjustly takes funds from the limited public resources available to those who truly need them,” commented Christopher Paulos an attorney with the Levin, Papantonio law firm who practices in the areas of qui tam or whistleblower and False Claims Act litigation. “It’s a form of theft from taxpayers. Plain and simple. Unfortunately, it often goes unpunished without the efforts of a brave individual coming forward who has knowledge of the improper or fraudulent activity.”
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