Rachel Peay-Goodman, MSN, RN, a nurse practitioner in Idaho, was found civilly liable for unlawfully prescribed controlled substances and submitted a false claim to Medicare.
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Indiana is due to enact a law prohibiting parents from seeking gender-affirming care for their transgender children July 1. In the meantime, a federal judge is considering a temporary ban on the law taking effect, according to a June 14…
A North Carolina mental health clinic owner pleaded guilty to a $4.7 million Medicaid fraud scheme in which he submitted over 1,500 fraudulent claims to the program.
The former executive director of an Ohio counseling center has been sentenced to three years in prison for leading a $3.5 million Medicaid fraud scheme.
Four individuals face charges in the four-year, nationwide trafficking of human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School. "Some crimes defy understanding," one U.S. attorney said of the case.
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A physician assistant from Monroe, N.C., was found guilty for his role in a genetic testing scheme involving $10 million in fraudulent Medicare claims.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law June 13 aimed at improving patient safety by closing a longstanding loophole that allowed an infamous physician to keep practicing despite concerns of harm being done to patients, NBC affiliate KXAN…
From Merck suing the federal government to stop Medicare drug price negotiations, to a judge ordering a preliminary injunction preventing a former Cigna executive from working for CVS Health, here are 12 healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements Becker's has reported…
Since March, Becker's has covered seven cases of opioids and other medications being replaced with saline and other substances, all of them perpetrated by nurses.
A 76-year old man was arrested and charged with attempted murder after the stabbing of a nurse at Gardner, Mass.-based Heywood Hospital on June 12, according to police.