Northwell Health, based in New Hyde Park, N.Y., is being sued over racial and gender discrimination by a Black female cardiologist who had privileges in the system beginning in the late 1990s, according to a lawsuit filed March 20 in…
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Paul Mansour, a California pharmacist and co-owner of Best Buy Drugs in Sierra Madre, pleaded guilty to fraud.
Kettering (Ohio) Health officials said their ongoing internal investigation into misconduct allegations is not tied to donor funds, the Dayton Daily News reported April 5.
From a jury awarding nearly $34 million to the parents of a boy who suffered severe brain damage at a Maryland hospital, to a Michigan health system and two physicians paying $69 million to settle False Claims Act allegations, here…
A former nurse was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting two patients and secretly video-recording hundreds of others, including children.
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A registered nurse and nurse practitioner who defrauded Medicare and commercial payers of almost $12 million has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Austin-based Genotox Laboratories agreed to pay upward of $5.9 million to settle False Claims Act allegations related to third-party market commissions, the Justice Department said April 4.
Sandy Mai Trang Nguyen, a former licensed pharmacist in Irvine, Calif., was found guilty on 21 counts of healthcare fraud and sentenced to 180 months in federal prison.
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit that accuses the system of charging some unvaccinated employees more for health insurance, lehighvalleylive.com reported March 31.
Facility fees add an unexpected burden to families in Colorado, Nicholas Nonas, MD, a retired physician, wrote in Colorado Politics April 3.