Posts Tagged ‘New York’
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Bitcoin Futures Flourish Under CFTC Approval, but Danger Still Looms
It is no secret that Bitcoin is on the rise; the cryptocurrency has gained a significant amount of momentum since its introduction to the market in 2009, popular for being the first digital currency that operates without a central bank. Though many seem to be under the impression that it is no more than a […]
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Subacute Nursing Home Provides Substandard Care
A small-town nursing home in New Jersey recently agreed to pay a sum of $888,000 to resolve allegations that they had provided substandard or “worthless” care to patients over the course of a two-year Medicaid fraud scheme. From July 2010 to December 2012, Andover Subacute and Rehab Center Services Two Inc. billed New York Medicaid […]
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Brooklyn Clinic “Employs” Homeless in $70M Medicare Fraud Scheme
As if Medicaid fraud didn’t already victimize the nation’s most needy and impoverished individuals as it is, the now-former owner of a Brooklyn-based healthcare clinic figured out how to further abuse these individuals in the pursuit of lining his own pockets. Over the course of nine years, Victor Lipkin and eight others would recruit and […]