Increasingly the manner in which the government promotes its law enforcement efforts in the Medicare arena sound more and more like military operations or even Saturday morning cartoons. The creation of the "Strike Force" known as HEAT, Health Care Fraud

In one of the recent pleas related to the government's new focus on Medicare fraud in Detroit, a physical therapist and two others pleaded guilty to approximately $2.5 million in Medicare Fraud related to physical and occupational therapy services. Click

A Jacksonville physician, Janet Johnson-Hunter, pleaded guilty to altering medical records to justify ambulance transportation of patients. Rather than have the case presented to a grand jury and require the government obtain an indictment, Dr. Hunter-Johnson waived that right and