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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- March 9, 2018

Posted  March 9, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

New Medicare cards coming, and here’s how they’ll help fight fraud – New Medicare cards will soon hit the mailboxes of senior citizens across New Jersey. What’s new? Medicare has removed Social Security numbers from the cards, replacing them with a unique Medicare number. It won’t contain a gender or signature either. APP

Medical assistant gets 3 years for role in $17M southern Brooklyn Medicare fraud – A Brooklyn federal judge called health care schemes a “thorny problem” in the Eastern District of New York before sentencing a medical assistant to three years in prison for his role in a $17 million Medicaid and Medicare scam in southern Brooklyn. Yuriy Omelchenko previously pleaded guilty to working at as an unlicensed physical and occupational therapist, supervising aides as they gave unnecessary “treatments,” to patients at two Brooklyn clinics for Medicaid kickbacks. Brooklyn Eagle

‘Pharma Bro’ faces high stakes sentencing in fraud case – Is “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli a master manipulator who conned wealthy investors or a misunderstood eccentric who used unconventional means to make those same investors even wealthier? A federal judge in Brooklyn will have to weigh the conflicting portrayals of the former pharmaceutical company CEO on Friday at his sentencing on a securities fraud conviction. ABC