Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, Calif., was recently fined $75,000 for inadequate obstetric care that led to an infant's death in 2016, The San Diego Union Tribune reported July 15.
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A medical marketer was sentenced to two years and five months in prison and ordered to pay more than $59 million in restitution for his role in a scheme that defrauded Tricare and other federal healthcare programs.
A Maine law that increases charges for assaults on medical and nonmedical staff while providing emergency medical care appears to have done very little, Portland Press Herald reported July 14.
The former CFO of Loretto Hospital in Chicago is among three individuals charged in an indictment alleging involvement in a $15 million embezzlement scheme.
Police have arrested a man who allegedly fired a gun inside St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., local authorities confirmed to Becker's.
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A former Georgia insurance commissioner was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, the Justice Department said July 12.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago has been hit with a federal class action lawsuit over a data breach that affected 792,000 patients. The lawsuit also alleges that the hospital waited almost five months to inform individuals…
Three laboratories have agreed to pay $2.45 million to resolve allegations they submitted claims containing manipulated diagnosis codes to Medicare and Medicaid.
A California-based laboratory has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that it double-billed Medicare for urine drug testing.
Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health took immediate advantage of the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Chevron deference.