Presentations:

• January 18, 2013, Jim Sheehan presents Representing the Physician 2013: Practical Considerations for Effectively Guiding Physicians and Their Practices (in PDF)
  
  
• January 9, 2013, Jim Sheehan presents Fraud in Personal Care Programs at the Medicaid Integrity Institute Symposium (in PDF)
  
  
• January 9, 2013, Jim Sheehan presents Fraud in Transitions in Personal Care: Moving from Fee-for-Service to Managed Long term Care at the Medicaid Integrity Institute Symposium (in PDF)
  
  
• January 9, 2013, Jim Sheehan presents Enrollment Issues at the Medicaid Integrity Institute Symposium (in PDF)
  
  
• September 17, 2012 Jim Sheehan presents Introduction to Health Fraud (in PDF) at the 2012 Fraud & Compliance Forum for the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Care Compliance Association.
  
  
• April 4, 2012 Executive Deputy Commissioner/Chief Integrity Officer Jim Sheehan co-taught an interactive webinar on Medicare Overpayments: Analyzing the CMS 60-Day Rule: Reporting and Refunding Overpayments for Providers, Suppliers, Drug Plan Sponsors, and Medicaid MCOs (in PDF).
  
  
• January 28, 2011 Jim Sheehan presented Mandatory Compliance: What the Future Looks Like at the Health Care Compliance Association’s South Atlantic Regional Meeting (in PDF).

Press Releases:

• Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes And Hra Commissioner Doar Announce The Arrest Of Five Involved In Selling Heroin, Cocaine And Guns Out Of A Neighborhood Pharmacy, And For Stealing Over $6000 In Medicaid Funds, May 22, 2013

• Da Vance announces indictment of Dao Feng Lin for defrauding Chinese immigrants and abusing government assistance programs, May 7, 2013
  

• OMIG and HRA Announce $4 Million Brooklyn Ambulette Audit, May 15, 2013 

• A.G. Schneiderman Breaks Up Major Oxycodone Trafficking Ring in NYC and Hudson Valley, March 21, 2013
  

• Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes and NYC Human Resources Administration Commissioner Robert Doar Announce Indictment of Attorney who was collecting Medicaid, Food Stamps and Unemployment Insurance Benefits, March 21, 2013
   

• Commissioner Doar and Chief Integrity Officer Sheehan Joins Kings District Attorney Charles J. Hynes To Announce Creation of Health Care fraud Division to Prosecute Doctors, Pharmacists and Patients Who Steal City, State and Federal Healthcare Funds, February 25, 2013.
  

• January 31, 2013 Manhattan doctor illegally sold painkiller prescriptions to drug trafficking organization. 
  

• August 1, 2012 IREA investigators work with Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes to indict a tax preparer who received nearly $99,000 in NYC Medicaid benefits while living in Suffolk County. 
  
  
• July 23, 2012 IREA investigator helps Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes indict a husband and wife who stole over $100,000 in Food Stamps and Medicaid benefits over 6 years.
  
  
• July 17, 2012 IREA works with Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office as part of a massive Medicaid fraud scheme takedown, in which U.S. Attorney arrested 48 people in a scheme that caused losses estimated at more than half-a-billion dollars to Medicaid and is believed to be the largest single prescription drug diversion scheme ever charged at one time (in PDF).
  
  
• June 5, 2012 IREA works with NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor and other City, State, and Federal partners to arrest a NYC doctor for selling narcotic prescriptions to phantom patients: $150,000 in cash and gold bars seized (in PDF).
  
  
• May 4, 2012 IREA works with NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor, NYC Police Commissioner, and NYS Medicaid Inspector General to arrest manager of Harlem’s Broadway Pharmacy who made backdoor buys of narcotic pain relievers and prescriptions in health care fraud scheme (in PDF). 
  
  
• April 16, 2012 IREA investigation, audit, and attorney staff members help Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes indict a couple charged with raiding trust created for their disabled son. 
  
  
• April 10, 2012 IREA works with New York State Welfare Inspector General Sean Courtney and Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes to indict a man with fraudulently collecting $6,000 in Food Stamp Benefits from 26 Victims. 
  
  
• March 6, 2012 New York County District Attorney announces sentencing for medicaid fraud conviction from an IREA Investigation: defendant billed Medicaid for prescription drugs that were never dispensed (in PDF). 
  
  
• April 10, 2012 Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, New York City Human Resources Administration Commissioner Robert Doar, and New York State Welfare Inspector General Sean Courtney Announce an Indictment Charging a Man with Fraudulently Collecting $6,000 in Food Stamp Benefits from 26 Victims.
  
   

Legislative:

• April 23, 2013 Chief Integrity Officer Jim Sheehan Opposes U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture’s Food & Nutrition Service’s Proposed Rule (RIN 0584-AE22) on enhanced penalties for retailers who traffic in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits insofar as it failed to provide a comprehensive and structured response to this major program vulnerability (in PDF).
  
  
  
• February 21, 2013 The NYC Human Resources Administration has concerns that program integrity must be considered and addressed with the introduction of brand new systems ranging from the Federal Services Data Hub to state based Exchanges (in PDF).
  
  
  
• August 16, 2012 Jim Sheehan offered formal comments on the U.S. Dep’t of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) call for comments and recommendations to revise the federal Self-Disclosure Protocol (in PDF).
  
  
• July 30, 2012 Chief Integrity Officer Jim Sheehan Opposes U.S. Dep’t of Agriculture’s Food & Nutrition Service’s Proposed Rule (RIN 0584-AE26) on fraud and trafficking controls in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program insofar as it failed to address the electronic benefit system’s most common vulnerability: retailer fraud (in PDF).
  
  
• July 12, 2012 NYC Human Resources Commissioner Robert Doar opposes New York State’s proposed rule to eliminate finger imaging as a valid form of identify verification in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (in PDF). 
  
  
  

Articles:

• September 10, 2012 NY Post article about IREA’s investigative techniques: “Welfare cops expose poorly done scams” (in PDF).
  
  
• November 23, 2012 Brooklyn Daily article about Stripper indicted for Medicaid Fraud: “DA: Stripper caught in Medicaid fraud”