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   Medicaid Scam In Michigan Takes $29 Million From Taxpayers   
   12:44 PM 10/03/2014   
         
   JONAH BENNETT   
   Contributor   
      
   Health care providers defrauded Medicaid to the tune of $29 million dollars by   
   coordinating with a day care center for mentally ill adults to steal patient   
   information, the Washington Examiner reports.   
      
   Abdul Malik Al-Jumail and his daughter Jamella Al-Jumail created a series of   
   fake health companies, and then collaborated closely with Felicar Williams,   
   51, who ran the day care center. Felicar would steal patient information, the   
   Jumails would file    
   false claims, and then provide kickbacks to Felicar. Many complex procedures   
   for mental health were billed that were simply never provided.   
      
   Sometimes the Jumails would even fabricate entire medical records if necessary   
   to gain reimbursement, showing how patients desperately needed treatment, and   
   how their companies provided care. All three individuals involved are now in   
   prison. The actual    
   sentencing, however, hasn't yet been scheduled. Two others, Mohammed Sadiq and   
   Philandis Thomas, are charged in the indictment and scheduled for trial later   
   this month. Another individual remains on the loose.   
      
   A 61-year-old psychiatrist, Carey Vigor, was also named in the indictment, but   
   was later acquitted by the jury.   
      
   As the investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services inspector   
   general (HHS-OIG) deepened and Malik Al-Jumail was promptly arrested, his   
   daughter panicked and instructed an employee to burn the falsified medical   
   records. In total, they    
   siphoned off $29 million dollars in the scam.   
      
   However, since its inception in 2007, the HHS-OIG has worked closely with the   
   Department of Justice and the FBI, among others. These agencies together work   
   in the Medicare Fraud Task Force, and together, they have recuperated   
   approximately $14.9 billion    
   dollars. The task force has charged almost 2,000 individuals and operates in 9   
   cities across the United States.   
      
   With this recent case in mind, the HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid   
   Services are joining with the HHS-OIG to further crackdown on fraud.   
      
      
      
   http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/03/medicaid-scam-in-michigan-take   
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