Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood of the Eastern District of Michigan sentenced 53-year-old Michigan resident Muhammad Shahab to 50 months in prison and three years of supervised release for perpetrating almost $11 million in Medicare fraud between August 2007 and October 2009. Shahab and his co-defendants…
On Monday, September 16, 2013, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed into law legislation that will expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of Michigan residents. Medicaid expansion is a national effort initiated through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act increases available federal funding for states…
On Tuesday, September 3, 2013, the Michigan House gave final legislative approval to Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This legislation, House Bill 4714, is expected to be signed by Governor Rick Snyder in the coming weeks. The Affordable Care Act increases federal funding for states…
On July 18, 2013, Detroit’s emergency manager Kevin Orr filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in the Eastern District of Michigan U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Emergency manager Kevin Orr, appointed by Governor Rick Snyder, is tasked with financial control of the city and the power to liquidate city assets. Orr is…
In 2005, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid started the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program in three pilot states, where the program recovered over $900 million dollars during the three-year pilot. Due to the success of the pilot program, CMS expanded the program to all states in 2010, and…
The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) recently announced that it has saved more than $5 million in costs in 2009 due to its system-wide Electronic Medical Records (EMR). This is the second consecutive year that the DMC has experienced cost-savings due to the EMR system. The system, which started to be…
Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox announced a community forum to be held next week regarding the proposed sale of the Detroit Medical Center to Vanguard Health Systems, Inc. Earlier this year, DMC signed a purchase agreement that would require Vanguard to make $850 million in capital improvements over the next…