A Massachusetts home health company and its CEO will pay $10 million to settle charges of falsely billing the state's Medicaid program, according to a news release from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.
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The owners of more than a dozen pharmacies in New York City and Long Island have been arrested and charged for their roles in an alleged $30 million healthcare fraud and money laundering scheme, the Department of Justice announced Dec.…
Texas Heart Hospital of the Southwest in Plano, Texas, has agreed to pay $48 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Moses D. deGraft-Johnson, MD, pleaded guilty Dec. 18 to 56 counts of healthcare fraud, conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to the Department of Justice.
From the owner of a hospice chain sentenced to prison for his role in a $150 million fraud scheme to hospitals suing HHS, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines.
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Drugmakers who produce opioids have paid $65 million since 1997 to nonprofits that advocate for treating pain with the highly addictive medications, according to a bipartisan congressional investigation released Dec. 16.
The owner of a Texas hospice chain, who was convicted of falsely telling thousands of patients with incurable diseases they had less than six months to live, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and ordered to pay…
A physician in Pennsylvania has been ordered to spend nine months on house arrest after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in October, according to The Tribune-Democrat.
Two owners of a Houston-based home health agency were arrested Dec. 15 on charges of fraudulently billing Medicare more than $10 million, the U.S. Justice Department said.
A psychiatrist in Natick, Mass., was arrested Dec. 10 in connection with charges that he billed Medicare and private payers for more than $10 million in treatments he did not provide, according to the Department of Justice.