{"id":90,"date":"2007-08-13T05:17:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T05:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2007\/08\/whistleblower_lawyer_update_me.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:53:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:53:56","slug":"whistleblower_lawyer_update_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/whistleblower_lawyer_update_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Lawyer Update: Medicaid Fraud Investigation Into Fraudulent Pharmacy Billings Produces Recovery in Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/medicare_and_medicaid_fraud\/\">Medicaid Fraud<\/a> Recovery Announced by Missouri Attorney General <\/p>\n<p>False and fraudulent billings were uncovered in a Missouri Medicaid fraud investigation that has produced a recovery by the Missouri Attorney General&#8217;s Office&#8217;s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Billings like this typically violate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/the_false_claims_act\/\">False Claims Act<\/a> or the various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/the_false_claims_act\/\">state False Claims Acts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prescriptions that had not been authorized by physicians were submitted and paid for by the Medicaid program.  Once the suspicious activity was reported, the Attorney General&#8217;s Office&#8217;s investigation followed and produced a recovery of $462,926 from apparently a single pharmacy in DeKalb County, Missouri, the  Randolph Drug Store in Maysville.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/whistleblower_lawyer_update_me\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Whistleblower Lawyer Update: Medicaid Fraud Investigation Into Fraudulent Pharmacy Billings Produces Recovery in Missouri\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicaid Fraud Recovery Announced by Missouri Attorney General False and fraudulent billings were uncovered in a Missouri Medicaid fraud investigation that has produced a recovery by the Missouri Attorney General&#8217;s Office&#8217;s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Billings like this typically violate the False Claims Act or the various state False Claims Acts. 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