The Justice Department and the State of Illinois filed a complaint in intervention on Aug. 17 alleging that a Chicago-area podiatry practice and its billing companies knowingly submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid, netting more than $5.2 million in…
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Boston-based Harvard University Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to settle civil lawsuits that accused the school of negligence in its handling of donated human remains. The case centers on the conduct of Cedric Lodge, a former Harvard…
A group of 30 senators is pressing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reverse the cancellation of roughly 150 federal patient safety research grants and restore the funding behind them. In an Aug. 12 letter led by Sens. Richard…
From an international fugitive pleading guilty to his role in a $1.2 billion scheme, to a Nevada physician indicted in an alleged $95 million scheme, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases that Becker’s has reported on since July 30: …
Tarek Salaway, who served as CEO of Portland-based OHSU Health for less than four months before being terminated in March, has filed a $15.5 million lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University. Mr. Salaway filed the lawsuit Aug. 13 in…
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Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care agreed to two separate settlements tied to alleged negligence, according to an Aug. 12 report from The Gazette. In the first case, the health system will pay $500,000 to a former patient after…
UnitedHealth Group shareholders are renewing pressure on the company in an amended complaint, filed Aug. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. An initial complaint from July 2024 focused on concerns over the “firewall” between UnitedHealthcare…
Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in connection with the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the New York Times reported. “I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan,” Mr. Mangione told…
Alabama police confirmed an officer-involved shooting on the campus of UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham Aug. 13 that left one man dead. The incident occurred around 12:35 p.m. when an officer with the Birmingham Police Department attempted to detain a suspect…
A federal judge has dismissed a proposed antitrust class action accusing a group of hospitals and health systems, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and a residency matching organization of conspiring to suppress pharmacy residents’ pay, according to an Aug.…