Legal & Regulatory Issues

A father and son pleaded guilty in a $21.7 million scheme to defraud Medicare through fraudulent medical device prescriptions. 

A medical waste company has filed a lawsuit against Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, alleging the system planted a human torso at the facility. 

A gynecologic oncologist has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital, and associated entities, alleging they made a premature report that hindered his future employment opportunities. 

The owner of two Connecticut mental health clinics was sentenced to 30 months in prison for submitting over $1 million in false claims to Medicaid. 

A physician filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired from the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine because of a whistleblower complaint against her previous hospital employer, Medscape reported June 26.

A former medical device sales representative was arrested June 26 for allegedly defrauding a Boston area hospital and lying to federal authorities, according to the Justice Department.

A Wisconsin prenatal care coordinator has been indicted for an alleged $2.3 million Medicaid fraud scheme. 

Immigrants will be asked whether they are in the country legally if they seek hospital care in Florida as a new law goes into effect July 1.

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Former emergency room physicians at St. Margaret's Health-Peru (Ill.) have filed a lawsuit against the now-shuttered hospital, alleging it missed payments for their services.