Legal & Regulatory Issues

Khalid Satary, the owner of several labs in Georgia, Oklahoma and Louisiana, is a wanted fugitive for alleged fraud involving unnecessary cancer genetic testing that resulted in billing Medicare for over $547 million, according to HHS' Office of Inspector General.

Conyers, Ga., physician Aarti Pandya, MD, has agreed to pay $1.85 million to resolve allegations that she knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare.

Bayonne, N.J.-based CarePoint Health and Jersey City-based Alaris Health have reached a settlement, ending a legal argument that has spanned more than three years. 

A man working as a contractor died Jan. 9 after falling from the roof of the main Massachusetts General Hospital campus building, according to CBS New Boston.

Former Florida physician Michael Ligotti, DO, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in October in the Justice Department's largest addiction fraud treatment case ever, the department said Jan. 9.

The Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System scheduled a gender-affirming surgery for a transgender man, but canceled it the night before the procedure was set to take place. That was a violation of the Affordable Care Act, a federal court…

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Florida nursing home owner who had his 20-year prison sentence commuted by former President Donald Trump, according to a Jan. 6 Law360 report.

A drugstore in Columbia, S.C., will settle for $275,000 to resolve allegations of recordkeeping and dispensing violations after 46 bottles of cough syrup were misplaced. 

Three men who owned and operated a Texas genetic testing laboratory have been charged in an alleged $107 million Medicare fraud scheme. 

A South Carolina man was sentenced to over seven years in federal prison for stealing the identities of providers and Medicaid recipients and billing South Carolina Medicaid over $1 million in false claims.