Jose Luis Perez of Golden Beach, Fla., and Reinaldo Guerra of Miami have been indicted in a $179 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to a report in the South Florida Business Journal.
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Otis Story, former CEO of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, has settled a lawsuit with the hospital over his dismissal, which he says was orchestrated by another former CEO, Pamela Stephenson, so she could take over the position, according to…
A federal appeals court upheld a district court ruling that Westchester County Health Care Corporation, a public benefit corporation created by the state of New York that operates Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., is immune from unfair competition claims…
The Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital has paid $3.2 million to Medicare to settle allegations that the hospital improperly billed the program for unnecessary inpatient hospital admissions from April 1998 to April 2006, according to a report in the New Haven…
The LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport (La.) has settled federal allegations that it defrauded Medicare by billing $706,678 for services not provided, according to a report in the Shreveport Times.
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Mimbres Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home in Deming, N.M., part of the Community Health Systems, has been named in $17 million lawsuit filed in United States District Court for violations of the federal False Claims Act, among other allegations, according…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released three National Coverage Determinations, which state that CMS will not pay for surgical errors.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., has agreed to pay $2.75 million to the United States Government to settle allegations that the hospital submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs, according to a news release from the United…
The Colorado Medicaid Fraud Control Unit recovered more than $5.3 million in settlements and restitution in the fiscal year that ended June 30, the most since 1983, according to a report in the Denver Business Journal.
Two former CEOs of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta have filed lawsuits against one another, alleging job stealing and slander, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.