Medicare fraud is the practice of billing Medicare for reimbursement to which a claimant is not legally entitled. Medicare fraud is routinely committed by healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, medical teams, and healthcare facilities. Medicare fraud negatively affects taxpayers, the government, and the healthcare system as a whole, which is why the government encourages those with...

A federal jury recently found four Michigan physicians guilty of Medicare fraud for their roles in a scheme that involved administering unnecessary treatments to patients in exchange for medically unnecessary prescriptions. The doctors required patients to receive the injections in order to get the prescriptions, and some of these were resold on...