Keep America At Work It is all about Jobs and Opportunity Volume 1 - 05 July 2016 - Subscriptions are Free well. I have been searching foe jobs since December 2015. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a full-time job. But I got a research fellowship. I am hoping this fellowship converts I believe it is after hearing from so many into a full-time or helps me get a fulllike myself that can no longer find work time job at other companies. in the Software Industry. My suggestion to students would be to
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After reading this email that Kumar re- start applying for jobs even before they ceived, I believe it is the same for the H- graduate. The only way to get a fulltime job is to genuinely be expert in the 1B Non Immigrant Guest Workers. skills required for the job. Meanwhile, our Government and our Presidential Candidates like Hillary Clin- If the OPT is expiring and the student is not able to get a STEM extension, it is ton want to sell even more Hunting not the end of the world. There are lot Licenses to hunt American Jobs. of opportunities booming in India. -=-=-=-=email follows -=-=-= Ofcourse, the salary may not be as good As per the new OPT rules, consultancy/ as what one gets in the US. But it can definitely be a good start. contract jobs are not eligible for STEM extension. A friend of mine is also in a similar problem. His opt started on August 2015. He got a job through consultancy on June 2015. But his normal OPT is expiring this August 2016 and can’t extend his STEM OPT as his not doing a fulltime job. He has no option but to go to India. It is close to impossible for him to get a full-time job in a month. He is planning to enroll in a new course in order to stay in the US.
The sender wrote that he is very much prepared to go to India and have no problem. The job market is very bad and anything can happen at any time. His only suggestion would be is to find out what additional skills are required for a job and compare where you stand in the competition. If you have got the skills that nobody has, the companies will be very happy to give u a job.
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Paul Revere, where are you? Have the people of Pittsburgh lost that portion of their soul that warned us about the British? Why is it that nobody will stand up for America or the Americans that have the same or better skills? Why is it that nobody will discuss how Americans can no longer buy an interview in a large majority of our best paying STEM jobs because of “caste”? Better yet, why doesn’t the TribuneReview tell the stories of the Displaced American Software Workers who have been forced out of the workforce entirely? Continued on next page…
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As America’s science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce Most Indian workers stay in Pittsburgh grows more diverse, according to Ruson H-1B Visas, which are issued for temso, Pittsburgh will need to continue to porary employees working in specialhire foreign-born professionals to be ized industries. The quota for these competitive. visas was capped in the 1990s at 85,000 per year, a figure that some say is pre- “I think over the next five years it will venting economic growth. just continue to expand,” Russo said. “The evidence is here.” “No one could foresee there would be this rise in the need of skilled laborers,” Westinghouse Electric Co., based in said Jeanne Batalova, senior policy ana- Cranberry, recently signed a deal to lyst and demographer at the Washing- build three nuclear power plants in Inton-based Migration Policy Institute. dia. The company says this will create thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania and Some countries like Singapore have India. negotiated for more H-1B visas so their citizens can live and work in the United Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi States. India has yet to begin these ne- met this month with President Obama gotiations. The green card process to in the White House to discuss relations become a permanent resident can take between the countries. up to 10 years, a barrier that industry “The United States is well aware of the executives fear could discourage more talent that India has,” Modi said in a tech workers from coming to the United statement. “We and the United States States. can work together to bring forward this “These people are in demand,” Koka talent and use it for the benefit of mansaid. “They can go anywhere in the kind.” world. If America doesn’t fix this, it can http://triblive.com/news/ be a net loss.” allegheny/10687887-74/pittsburgh-
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essary procedures, and paid kickbacks to patients by waiving Medicare copayments irrespective of financial hardship, Lawyer and Wife Pay $1M Forfeiture in the Justice Department announced toH-1B Scam DOJ, June 30, 2016 – day. Dr. Qamar also agreed to a three“The Office of the United States Attoryear period of exclusion from particiney for the District of Vermont anpating in any federal health care pronounced today that Loreto Kudera, age gram followed by a three-year Integrity 45, and Hazel Kudera, age 43, a married Hazel Kudera and Loreto Kudera profitAgreement with the Department of couple from New York, New York, who ed from this scheme from the filing fees Health and Human Services Office of they collected from the beneficiaries as have pleaded guilty to an immigration the Inspector General (HHS-OIG). The well as from the health care facilities fraud scheme, have paid the final insettlement relates to two consolidated which were paying fees to the medical stallment of their $1 million forfeiture lawsuits in which the United States instaffing agencies owned by Hazel Kudepenalty representing ill-gotten gains tervened on Dec. 22, 2014. ra. The Kuderas admitted that they subfrom the scheme. mitted 100 or more fraudulent petitions “Billing federal health programs for On June 9, 2016, the Kuderas pleaded as part of their scheme. medically unnecessary procedures is guilty to charges that they conspired to unacceptable – not only does it waste As a result of their convictions, the Kucommit immigration fraud. According taxpayer funds, but it also puts patients to the public record, Hazel Kudera owns deras agreed to forfeit $1,000,000 in at risk,” said Principal Deputy Assistant illegal proceeds to the United States. several medical staffing agencies in Attorney General, Benjamin C. Mizer, New York specializing in providing nursThe Kuderas are scheduled to be senhead of the Justice Department’s Civil ing professionals to hospitals, outpatenced on September 28, 2016. The Division. “Today’s settlement evidenctient and skilled nursing facilities. maximum penalties for their conviction es the Department of Justice’s firm are five years of imprisonment, three She and her husband, Loreto Kudera, commitment to protect public funds then a lawyer at the Law Offices of Bar- years of supervised release, or a fine of and to safeguard the well-being of fedry Silberzweig, in New York, New York, $250,000 or twice the amount of gross eral health care program beneficiaries.” gain, whichever is greater. provided false and fraudulent inforThe settlement resolves the governmation to the U.S. Citizenship and ImThe sentence will be advised by the ment’s lawsuit claiming that Dr. Qamar migration Services in St. Albans, VerUnited States Sentencing Guidelines. – and ICE billed Medicare, Medicaid and mont when applying for H1-B visas for TRICARE for excessive, medically unnecSee more at foreign nurses. essary and inadequately documented The H-1B visa program permits an em- https://www.lexisnexis.com/ peripheral artery interventional services legalnewsroom/immigration/b/ ployer to petition on a behalf of a forand related procedures. Many of the insidenews/archive/2016/07/01/lawyer eign national beneficiary to enter the cardiovascular procedures for which Dr. -and-wife-pay-1m-forfeiture-in-h-1bUnited States for the specific purpose Qamar and ICE billed Medicare and the scam.aspx? of working for the employer in a speother programs were not indicated by cialty occupation. patients’ medical histories or records, or the severity of the patients’ sympThere are a limited number of H-1B toms. visas available each year, and the purpose of the program is to ensure that An Ocala, Florida, cardiologist, Dr. Asad The government also alleged that to these visas go to legitimate beneficiarQamar, and his practice, the Institute of help facilitate this false billing scheme, ies to fill specialty positions from a qualCardiovascular Excellence (ICE), will pay Dr. Qamar and ICE routinely and indisified work force. Working as a general criminately waived the 20 percent Med$2 million, plus release any claim to RN or LPN is not considered a specialty icare copayment, irrespective of the $5.3 million in suspended Medicare occupation by the U.S. Citizenship and funds, to resolve a lawsuit alleging that patient’s financial need. Medicare coImmigration Service. they improperly billed Medicare, Medi- payments assure that patients have an Knowing this, Hazel Kudera and Loreta caid and TRICARE for medically unnec- incentive to be smart healthcare
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Continued from Page 4... consumers and avoid unnecessary procedures. By waiving the required copayments indiscriminately, Dr. Qamar and ICE induced patients to agree to unnecessary and invasive procedures and other services. Dr. Qamar’s and ICE’s illegal conduct made Dr. Qamar the highest paid Medicare cardiologist in the country in 2012 and 2013. “Patient safety is of paramount importance,” said U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III for the Middle District of Florida. “When a doctor performs medically unnecessary and invasive procedures on Medicare patients, federal healthcare programs are defrauded and, more importantly, patients’ lives and wellbeing are recklessly put at risk. This case shows our office’s steadfast commitment to holding medical providers personally responsible for their actions.”
done in these cases. The cases are captioned United States ex rel. Doe v. Institute of Cardiovasular Excellence, PLLC, ICE Holdings, PLLC, Dr. Asad Qamar, & Dr. Humera Qamar, Case No. 5:11-CV406-OC-KRS (M.D. Fla.); United States ex rel. Taylor & the State of Florida v. Institute of Cardiovascular Excellence & Dr. Asad Qamar, Case No. 8:14-CV-1454 -T-35-EAS (M.D. Fla.). The relators Dr. Robert A. Green and Ms. Holly A. Taylor will receive $1,327,721 as their share of the settlement.
This settlement illustrates the government’s emphasis on combating health care fraud and marks another achievement for the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative, which was announced in May 2009 by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The partnership between the two departments has focused efforts to reduce and prevent Medicare and Med“When medical professionals act on icaid financial fraud through enhanced greed to perform unnecessary, invasive cooperation. One of the most powerful procedures on Medicare and Medicaid tools in this effort is the False Claims patients, both patient health and taxAct. Since January 2009, the Justice payer funds are compromised,” said Department has recovered a total of Special Agent in Charge Shimon R. Rich- more than $29.9 billion through False mond of HHS-OIG. “Our agents and Claims Act cases, with more than $18.3 investigators will continue to work hard billion of that amount recovered in caswith our law enforcement partners to es involving fraud against federal health ensure that health care providers who care programs. engage in such illegal behavior are held This case was handled by the Commeraccountable.” cial Litigation Branch of the Department The allegations resolved by today’s of Justice’s Civil Division, the U.S. Attorsettlement were originally raised in two ney’s Office for the Middle District of lawsuits filed pursuant to the qui tam, Florida, HHS-OIG, and the Defense or whistleblower, provisions of the Health Agency on behalf of the TRICARE False Claims Act, which permit private program. The claims asserted by the parties to sue on behalf of the govern- government are allegations only, and ment when they discover evidence that there has been no determination of defendants have submitted false claims liability. for government funds and to receive a https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/floridashare of any recovery. The False Claims cardiologist-and-his-practice-payAct also permits the government to millions-and-agree-three-yearsintervene in such lawsuits, as it has exclusion-resolve Page Number: 6
Have we lost our ability to think? Our very own military takes raw recruits, the majority with zero college, and teaches them all of the skills necessary to perform the job that they are filling. By comparison, our private industries treat their employees like a disposable commodity ready to be brought online as needed and sidelined when not. We really need to look in the mirror if we want to blame somebody. Editors Note: I wrote the above portion after reading the following. That undercurrent in the hiring process in Pittsburgh was amplified in May when the Allegheny Conference on Community Development urged companies to rethink job descriptions. If employers don’t work with educators to adjust their recruitment to fit with new skills and competencies, the group found, the regional workforce could come up short by 80,000 people by 2025. “I think when companies complain about not being able to find talent, and talent complains about not being able to get an interview and be hired, there’s this disconnect,” said Laura Fisher, senior vice president of special projects and workforce for the Allegheny Conference. The mismatch of skills in tech jobs is representative of a larger problem for southwestern Pennsylvania, Ms. Fisher said: Just 43 percent of people who graduate with bachelor’s degrees from regional schools find a job here, according to the Allegheny Conference report. For associate’s degrees, that number is 62 percent.