Even as 697-bed Swedish Medical Center in Seattle broke ground on a 175-bed hospital in suburban Issaquah Highlands, a rival hospital was pursuing a lawsuit to stop the project, according to King 5 News.
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Adonis Ortiz of Miami was convicted of healthcare fraud and conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and faces up to 40 years in prison, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A federal grand jury in Houston returned a superseding indictment charging Arun Sharma, MD, and Kiran Sharma, MD, with 35 additional counts of illegally distributing controlled substances, healthcare fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, in addition to charges brought against…
Reinaldo Guerra of Miami, Fla., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud and one count of Medicare fraud, according to a news release from the United States Attorney General's Office of the Southern District of Florida.
A fourth executive from West Chester, Pa.-based Synthes pleaded guilty to charges originating with illegal clinical trials the company performed on Norian XR, a bone cement, in which three patients died, according to a report from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle is suing for nearly $3 million in Social Security tax refunds on behalf of medical residents and fellows working there from 1999-2004, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The American Health Lawyers Association has announced the release of the fourth edition of Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Legal and Regulatory Issues by Scott Becker, Melissa Szabad, Amber McGraw Walsh, Sarah Abraham Chacko, Ronald E. Lundeen, Jr., Elissa Koch Moore and…
Many aspects of the current healthcare system could possibly undergo seismic changes as Congress considers healthcare reform. These Olympian struggles are being closely monitored by Peter Mandell, MD, the new chair of the Council on Advocacy at the American Academy…
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General has issued an advisory opinion for a critical hospital that provides free blood pressure screenings on request to walk-in visitors, according to a news release from the American…
A big casualty of the congressional health care reform legislation would be the loss of state flexibility in the financing and delivery of affordable health care options for their citizens.