Springfield (Vt.) Hospital and Springfield (Vt.) Medical Care Systems have entered into a settlement agreement with their former CEO to resolve a case that has been pending for roughly seven months, according to Valley News.
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A contract disagreement between Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health and Anthem is holding up negotiations as an April 29 deadline approaches, according to a column published in the News-Sentinel.
Catherine Pugh, former mayor of Baltimore and director on the board of the University of Maryland Medical System, was handed a three-year prison sentence Feb. 27 for fraud, according to The Baltimore Sun.
A physician in Michigan was charged Feb. 26 in a $120 million healthcare fraud and money laundering scheme that allegedly involved the illegal distribution of controlled substances and unnecessary injections that caused patient harm, according to the Department of Justice.
From a Florida physician allegedly bilking $26 million from insurers to a Tennessee hospital paying $4.1 million to settle a false claims lawsuit, here are eight healthcare billing fraud cases that made headlines in the past month.
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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has sent a letter to HCA Healthcare asking the company to address several concerns related to its management of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, according to The Citizen-Times.
Hundreds of medical records from former patients of Chicago-based Community Mental Health Council, a group of clinics, were found in an alley dumpster, according to CBS Chicago.
A federal appeals court on Feb. 24 upheld the Trump administration's changes to Title X funding, which prohibit taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from performing or providing referrals for abortions, reports Bloomberg.
A urologist in California was sentenced to 71 months in prison Feb. 24 for submitting more than $700,000 in fraudulent billings to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.
The Supreme Court on Feb. 21 lifted an injunction on the "public charge" rule in Illinois, allowing the rule to go into effect nationwide, The Hill reports.