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		<title>CHCAA Elects New Chair for 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Health Care Anti-fraud Association is pleased to announce the election of Diane Geddes, of Great West Life (GWL), to its Chair position for 2009.  The election took place at the Association&#8217;s annual general meeting on December 11th in Toronto.
Over the past eight years, Diane has become an expert in financial accounting control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=192</link>
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		<title>Retraction and Apology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 9, 2008, we posted a blog item that Dr. Malcolm Brigden recently settled allegations of fraudulently overcharging US Medicare-Medicaid and that Dr. Brigden is forbidden to bill Medicare for his services ever again.
The posting was inaccurate and the CHCAA apologizes unreservedly to Dr. Brigden for publishing untrue information about him.
There were never any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=197</link>
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		<title>NY Recovers $551 Million in Medicaid Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Governor of New York State announced that the state has greatly exceeded its targeted health care fraud recovery quotas for 2008. Under the Federal-State Health Reform Partnerships - &#8220;a federal program that sets requirements for Medicaid fraud and abuse recoveries,&#8221; the Office of the Medical Inspector General (OMIG) for New York State agreed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=158</link>
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		<title>Today the World Says &#8220;No&#8221; to Corruption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks International Anti-Corruption Day. This is a United Nations initiative that began in 2003 and is designed to raise awareness about corruption and the role of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in combating and preventing it. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Corruption (UNODC) leads and administers the campaign each year.
The aim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=149</link>
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		<title>CHCAA Talks Fraud in Newcastle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People were talking fraud instead of football for a change at St. James&#8217; Park, home of the famed Newcastle United soccer club. On November 20th and 21st, the hallowed football shrine played host to the first annual conference of the Health Insurance Counter Fraud Group (HICFG). Similar to CHCAA, HICFG is an association of British [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=132</link>
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		<title>Fraudster&#8217;s Assets Frozen North of the Border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An American man wanted in the US on Medicare fraud charges has had his assets frozen by the BC Supreme Court.
The former owner and Chief Executive of a Chicago hospital is facing federal perjury and obstruction of justice charges in relation to a 64.2 million dollar US civil judgement against him in 2006. The original [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=108</link>
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		<title>Drugs Addicts a Hit with Vancouver Pharmacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent CBC News investigation has uncovered an alleged drug kickback scheme involving an East Vancouver pharmacy and local drug addicts. According to the report, drug addicts are being paid off to fill their provincially-funded methadone prescriptions in exchange for cash. The bribe generally amounts to ten dollars, the same price as a rock of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=91</link>
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		<title>Eligibility Criteria for Provincial Health Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the CHCAA has been working cooperatively with the Canadian Expatriate Association to advise Canadians living abroad about the importance of making sure they are receiving health care lawfully when they return to Canada. Since this criteria is set out by the provincial Ministries of Health, the CHCAA is pleased to provide a list of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Fraudsters Abuse Homeless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent FBI investigation in Los Angeles has led to the discovery of a scheme that allegedly exploited the homeless to commit tens of millions of dollars worth of health insurance fraud.
The investigation began in 2004 when Union Rescue Mission employee Scott Johnson began noticing vans loading up homeless people in front of his workplace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=66</link>
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		<title>Reader Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a response from the Canadian Expat Association (CEA) to the CHCAA article entitled  &#8220;Canadian Expats Getting Free Health Care?&#8221; published on May 15, 2008 on this website.


Dear Editor,



 I&#8217;ve just been made aware of your post on May 15th of this year regarding Canadian Expats getting Free Health Care.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chcaa.org/blog/?p=65</link>
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