Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Air Methods Corporation will pay $1.05M to the federal government to settle allegations it did not return overpayments it received from Medicare, Tricare and Kentucky Medicaid.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Five health systems in North Carolina filed nearly all of the state's hospital lawsuits against patients for unpaid bills, according to a Duke Law report.
Pennsylvania's attorney general charged a nurse for neglecting and assaulting an 80-year-old nursing home patient.
A Pittsburgh man who owned two area laboratories was sentenced to 18 months in prison, ordered to forfeit $9 million and pay more than $77 million for his role in three kickback schemes.
Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital and HCA Healthcare settled a nonpayment lawsuit, the Citizen Times reported Aug. 15.
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Navigating the ever-changing landscape of healthcare management, providers find themselves in an intricate dance with Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs). This relationship is often marked by frequent and often erroneous denials.
Federal agents have arrested a Utah man previously indicted for allegedly posing as a physician and selling a baseless COVID-19 cure, ending a three-year manhunt.
From AdventHealth suing MultiPlan for alleged price fixing, to a Louisiana hospital reaching a settlement in an overtime wage lawsuit, here are 11 hospital lawsuits and settlements Becker's has reported since Aug. 3.
A surgeon is suing Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and the hospital's chief of surgery over alleged discrimination she faced as a female, foreign-born physician, according to Bangor Daily News.
A North Carolina pharmacy owner was sentenced to two years in prison for a $4 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.