DuBois, Pa.-based Penn Highlands Healthcare has agreed to pay the federal government $735,000 to resolve a whistleblower suit alleging Physician Self-Referral Law violations from claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid.
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Two former high-ranking employees have filed a False Claims Act complaint against Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System.
Louisiana is the first state to define medication abortion, an FDA-approved two-drug regimen, as a controlled substance, meaning possession of unprescribed abortion pills can lead to imprisonment.
A Fredericksburg, Texas physician was convicted for causing the submission of more than $70 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic tests ordered through a telemarketing scheme.
A debated Florida law that allows physicians to perform cesarean deliveries outside of hospitals came about after backing by a private equity-owned physicians group, according to KFF Health News.
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Newport News (Va.) police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that took place at Riverside Regional Medical Center on May 26.
A physician was convicted by a Nevada federal jury for his role in a nearly $2 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme.
A Mississippi man who owned, operated, had financial interests in, or was affiliated with pharmacies, durable medical equipment companies and a laboratory pleaded guilty to his role in a $51 million Medicare fraud scheme.
A pair of pain physicians pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud three major payers by submitting claims for corticosteroid injections that were never administered.
On May 20, Massachusetts-based Magellan Diagnostics agreed to pay $42 million and pleaded guilty to charges related to the concealment of a device malfunction.