Florida Cardiology, P.A. and 10 physicians have agreed to pay $2 million to settle allegations they submitted inflated claims and for billing while the physicians were out of the country.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Rural hospitals around the U.S. are facing a financial crunch, and some states are proposing legislation to attempt to fix the problem.
The Connecticut Supreme Court is hearing a case of a woman who died of a heart attack while waiting on the results of a COVID-19 test in March 2020. The court will determine whether hospital immunity granted by the state…
Two people recently filed suit against Walmart and three pharmaceutical companies over the sale of eye drops that the CDC has linked to one death and five cases of blindness.
A 28-year-old man was arrested after allegedly bringing a gun into Peterborough, N.H.-based Monadnock Community Hospital, the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript reported Feb. 11.
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Martin Shkreli asked a federal judge to not hold him in contempt for failing to provide the Federal Trade Commission with information requested to determine whether he has violated a lifelong ban from working in the drug industry, according to…
A Mississippi physician was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $15 million after being convicted in a hospice fraud scheme, SuperTalk reported Feb. 9.
A federal jury convicted a Virginia pharmacist Feb. 9 for his role in a prescription drug scheme that aimed to defraud Medicare of $1 million.
Cindy Sue Norgren, the former accounting manager at a Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health hospital, was charged with embezzling $2 million from the Michigan health system, mlive.com reported Feb. 9.
An Arkansas Senate committee approved a bill that would allow rural hospitals to apply for Rural Emergency Hospital designation, opening them up to new sources of federal funds, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Feb. 9.