A medical biller from Mesa, Ariz., will serve six years in prison for stealing more than a thousand reimbursement checks sent to physicians from health insurers, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Aug. 11.
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Pennsylvania State University is requiring students to sign a liability agreement for COVID-19 before returning to campus this fall, reports Spotlight PA.
A radiology lab in New Jersey sued Cigna Aug. 12 over reimbursement for COVID-19-related services, according to Law360.
The former director of physician recruitment at Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, N.J., has sued the hospital for defamation, claiming she was fired after a photo appearing to show her doing a Nazi salute during a Black Lives Matter rally…
A man suspected of opening fire in Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport-St. Mary Medical Center in Louisiana the morning of Aug. 12 is in police custody, according to NBC 29.
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Three executives of the ousted management company that ran Tulare (Calif.) Regional Medical Center were indicted Aug. 11 on a combined 80 felony and misdemeanor criminal charges, according The Visalia Times Delta.
Humana filed a lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals over its sale of since-recalled blood pressure medication that contained carcinogenic substances.
A Texas anesthesiologist convicted in a $200 million healthcare fraud scheme has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison, the U.S. Justice Department said August 10.
An Allegheny County (Pa.) Court of Common Pleas judge upheld a decision by the Jefferson Hills Borough Zoning Hearing Board to deny UPMC a permit to build a hospital, according to TribLIVE.
A physician in North Carolina who improperly billed Medicaid faces additional reprimands after an investigation found she also delivered a substandard level of care, according to Point City Daily.