An Illinois diagnostic company that provides home sleep testing services has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle claims that it defrauded Medicare and other federal healthcare programs through kickbacks and unnecessary testing.
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The U.S. The Supreme Court ruled that states can seek reimbursements for future medical care from Medicaid beneficiaries who win money in personal injury litigation, Bloomberg reported June 6.
The California legislature has voted to approve a bill that designates the spread of misinformation regarding COVID-19 by a member of its medical board an act of misconduct.
A federal judge in Georgia June 2 ordered an outpatient facility to pay more than $9.6 million for submitting hundreds of fraudulent claims to Medicaid and Tricare.
A Florida medical biller who admitted to billing Medicaid for services that were not rendered was sentenced to five years and five months in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $2.2 million.
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Knoxville-based East Tennessee Children's Hospital is facing a lawsuit after a number of patients' personal health information was exposed in a March 2022 data breach, 10News reported June 2.
A group of healthcare providers in Florida filed a lawsuit June 1 to block the state's new abortion ban, according to The Hill.
The family of a nursing assistant killed by a co-worker in October at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has filed a lawsuit against the hospital alleging wrongful death and negligence.
As more hospitals and health systems mandated COVID-19 vaccination for their employees, lawsuits arose related to the policies.
A father and son formerly employed by Kaiser Permanente were sentenced May 27 for a scheme they operated from 2010 to 2018 to defraud the health system, resulting in the loss of $1.5 million.