An Oklahoma man was arrested Dec. 26 after phoning hospitals in Tennessee and Ohio with threats to commit violence, according to local news sources.
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From Community Health Network agreeing to a $345 million False Claims Act settlement to the sentencing of an orthopedic surgeon for his role in an upcoding scheme, here are 11 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's has reported since Dec. 12:
Ballwin, Mo.-based Total Access Urgent Care will pay more than $9.1 million to settle allegations it submitted false claims to Medicare and other federal healthcare programs.
Congress passed just 31 bills that became law in 2023, a record low in modern times, Spectrum News reported Dec. 21.
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is settling a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to an EEOC Dec. 22 press release.
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A third lawsuit has been filed related to the abrupt closure of Stone Academy, a for-profit nursing school based in Connecticut. Nine students filed a federal lawsuit Dec. 26 against state officials at the Office of Higher Education and the…
A second arrest warrant has been issued for Ammon Bundy, the former gubernatorial candidate and far-right public figure at the center of a legal battle with Boise-based St. Luke's Health System.
The former CEO of Apache Behavioral Health Services in Whiteriver and Cibecue, Ariz., has been charged in a scheme to defraud millions of dollars from the federally funded tribal healthcare provider.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have prohibited noncompete agreements, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 23.
The New York State Department of Health has ordered New York City-based Mount Sinai Beth Israel to "cease and desist" from closing beds and services without approval of the department.