Nebraska

No one wants to watch as their family members grow older and become unable to take care of themselves. The burden of care is often placed on an immediate family member or with a nursing home when this happens. Unfortunately, there are fraudsters looking...

Omaha is largely known for being the largest city in Nebraska and for making world renowned steaks. Unfortunately, one Omaha native is tainting its good reputation by making headlines for defrauding Medicare and state Medicaid programs. (Well, I guess you can’t be good at...

Child daycare providers not only take care of the basic needs of children while their parents or guardians are at work, they also read to them, teach them the alphabet and simple math, and make sure they get some playtime. (As a parent, it’s...

Choosing a Power of Attorney (POA) is one of the most important decisions you can make in a lifetime because that designated person has the power to act on your behalf. Today’s fraud article is about a man from Nebraska who chose his son...

Sometimes power changes people for the better and sometimes it doesn’t. Some people use a position of power to help others around them, while others use it to serve themselves. A former Nebraska Medicaid administrator used his position as power of attorney for his father to...

Medicaid covers approximately 13 percent of Nebraska’s population to include low-income children, pregnant women, adults, seniors and people with disabilities. According to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services, the government program contracts with about 80,000 medical providers to take care of those...

If there was a television show that featured the extravagant lifestyles of the momentarily rich and fraudulent, today 's fraudster would have an entire episode dedicated just to her. She fell for the typical fraudster 's dream ,she truly thought she could have everything...

Fraudsters are pretty good avoiders. They generally shun earning an honest living and admitting guilt when caught. While today's ''Fraud of the Day'' is about a Nebraska man who actually did work, he lied about the fact he was working and then sidestepped admitting...

Kids in foster care are among our society's most vulnerable and deal with untold loss. Sadly, they also are among our most targeted for fraud, as is the case in today's Fraud of the Day. The story, reported in the Elko Daily Free Press,...

The Omaha World-Herald has the troublesome story of a woman who defrauded Medicaid of more than $200,000 by submitting false claims for mental health and substance abuse counseling. This same woman, the report states, last year struck and killed a pedestrian with her car....