The Fulton County (Ga.) Commission voted on March 15 to file a complaint with the Justice Department against Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System, marking the third request for federal complaints against the health system over its closure of two Atlanta-area…
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Ralph Johnson, a former manager at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was sentenced to six months in federal prison for accepting $30,000 in kickbacks and bribes to steer contracts toward a Florida couple, Stars and Stripes reported March 15.
Nationwide, Medicaid fraud units recovered $1.1 billion in civil and criminal suits in 2022, according to a report from the HHS' Office of Inspector General.
A Missouri physician whose Medicare and Medicaid billing privileges were terminated pleaded guilty to fraudulently using his father's name to bill the government payers.
A former Panama City, Fla.-based NeuroMedical Institute physician, George Barrio, MD, has agreed to pay $225,000 to settle allegations that he engaged in unlawful prescribing of opioids to patients.
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States are rooting out alleged "fake" nurses and penalizing them for buying fraudulent nursing school transcripts and diplomas from three now-shuttered Florida schools.
Hospitals and the physicians who practice in their emergency rooms do not see eye to eye on the Federal Trade Commission's proposed rule to ban noncompete clauses in employment contracts.
Two companies operating healthcare sharing ministries will pay $2.1 million to California to settle allegations they violated insurance regulations by deceptively advertising their plans as equivalent to standard health insurance.
A medical testing company owner was sentenced to 80 months in prison and ordered to more than $9.1 million in restitution for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme.
New legislation pushed by Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont would end facility fees charged at freestanding offices and clinics away from hospitals and create stricter reporting requirements for facility fees, sfgate.com reported March 13.