Legal & Regulatory Issues

A Connecticut ambulance company has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle allegations that it submitted improper claims to Medicare and Medicaid.

A Wisconsin man was charged this week with two felony counts of identity theft after allegedly stealing another man's identity to rack up $20,000 in medical bills, according to the Leader-Telegram. 

Compassionate Homecare, a home health company, will pay $6.53 million to resolve a lawsuit that alleged it billed MassHealth for services that were not authorized by a physician.

A lawsuit filed by two Indiana hospitals over a Medicare payment calculation was properly dismissed by an HHS appeal board, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled March 25.

The Justice Department has filed a notice that it will join a whistleblower lawsuit against EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine and its CEO and co-founder, Daniel Cane.

A jury convicted former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult, ⁠The Tennessean reports. 

A Florida physician was sentenced to two years in prison for a scheme to defraud Medicare and a financial services company that offered loans to patients for out-of-pocket medical expenses. 

San Diego-based Scripps Health employees filed a lawsuit against the health system after the Kronos data breach affected their pay.

A former Nassau University Medical Center payroll director is accused of embezzling more than $121,000 from the hospital, Nassau County (N.Y.) District Attorney's Office announced March 24.

Two brothers who operated a pair of South Florida addiction treatment facilities were sentenced to prison March 21 for a $112 million billing fraud scheme.