The Massachusetts Attorney General's office has settled with a Rhode Island clinical laboratory over a purported kickback and false claims scheme that allegedly involved a laboratory in New Bedford.
A New Bedford-based clinical laboratory and one of its owners have been indicted for a range of criminal offenses relating to an alleged kickback and Medicaid fraud scheme involving drug tests at Massachusetts sober homes.
There are three certainties in our state: death, taxes, and seizure of a Medicaid recipient's home or assets when they die to pay outstanding medical bills.
Gov. Charlie Baker is proposing a 2.6 percent growth in state spending, filing a $40.905 billion budget for fiscal 2019 Wednesday that calls for changes at MassHealth and a tax on short-term housing rentals.
The U.S. Attorney's Office and the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office announced today that Dental Dreams, LLC, a national dental chain with locations in Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $1.375 million to resolve allegations that it improperly billed the Massachusetts Medicaid program (MassHealth) for unnecessary and unjustifiable dental procedures.