The Iowa Legislature has approved a bill that would cap noneconomic medical malpractice damages to $2 million in lawsuits against hospitals and $1 million in lawsuits against clinics and individual physicians, the Des Moines Register reported Feb. 8.
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The former director of Maine Task Force One, a disaster medical assistance team, has been found guilty of federal program fraud and wire fraud and sentenced to five years in prison with two years of supervised release.
From 23 Michigan residents being charged in an alleged $61.5 million scheme to the sentencing of a Louisiana clinic owner who billed Medicaid after misdiagnosing children, here are 11 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's has reported since Jan. 20:
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Sangita Patel, MD, a Troy, Mich.-based physician, has been named in a criminal complaint filed with the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan alleging that she prescribed drugs that were not medically necessary and billed Medicare for…
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A man was arrested Feb. 7 after allegedly terrorizing an employee near Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health's Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colo., police said in a statement on their Facebook page.
A federal jury convicted the owner and manager of a medical equipment supply company for a scheme to defraud Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care plans of more than $3.8 million.
California officials have secured an $18.275 million settlement against The Pill Club, a Silicon Valley startup operating an online pharmacy for birth control and contraceptives.
The Justice Department has revealed that settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act exceeded $2.2 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, with the government awarding more than $488 million to whistleblowers who exposed fraud and false claims…
The Justice Department has charged 23 Michigan residents for their alleged involvement in two schemes to defraud Medicare of more than $61.5 million by paying kickbacks and bribes and billing CMS for unnecessary medical services that were not provided.