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What Is Medicaid Fraud?
Medicaid Fraud can take on a variety of aspects. From purely fraud, it can be described as an attempt to defraud the Medicaid system by billing for services not delivered or delivered. It can also occur in cases where physical abuse or neglect has occurred. This includes, but is not limited to, battery, sexual assault and failure to provide services or medications. In both cases, so there is Medicaid fraud Medicaid money must be involved. |
Schemes that providers may use to defraud the Medicaid program:
- Billing for services not provided
- Double billing
- Billing for Phantom visits
- Billing for More Hours In A Day
- Falsifying Credentials
- Substitution of Generic Drugs
- Billing for Unnecessary Services or Tests
- Billing for More Expensive Procedures than were Performed
- False Cost Reports
To report Medicaid Fraud, Abuse or Neglect Call (888) 557-9503
Tinley Park |
Springfield |
Collinsville |
Illinois State Police
Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
8151 W. 183rd Street
Suite F
Tinley Park, Illinois 60477
Phone: (708) 633-5500 |
Illinois State Police
Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
801 South Seventh Street
Suite 200 – M
P.O. Box 19461
Springfield, Illinois 62794-9461
Phone: (217) 785-3322 |
Illinois State Police
Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
1100 Eastport Plaza Drive
Collinsville, Illinois 62234
Phone: (618) 346-3434 |
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