MEDICAL BENEFITS FRAUD – THE PHYSICIAN IS TEN YEARS DECEASED AND THE BILLS TO MEDICARE KEEP COMING

This is a personal family story. A loved family member, and a MD as well as PhD passed away almost ten years ago. He practiced medicine in our community, held a prestigious teaching position at Stanford University and was active in the US Public Health Service. He is sorely missed.

However, every year or so we are reminded of his medical practice, when the agency who handled his billing calls to confirm his death. Why? Because fraudsters keep submitting Medicare reimbursement requests for medical charges alleged to have been provided by him.