A New Mexico medical transportation founder and operator who pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid $1.96 million dollars was sentenced to 30 months in prison Sept. 6.
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Birmingham-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama faces an $8 million penalty from the Alabama Department of Insurance for selling policies at rates discrepant from those approved between 2005 to 2013, AL.com reports.
Federal prosecutors asked a judge to revoke bail for former pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli after he offered his Facebook followers $5,000 to grab a strand of Hillary Clinton's hair during her upcoming book tour, according to USA Today.
Salt Lake City District Attorneys asked the FBI to join an investigation into the violent arrest of a nurse who refused to allow a police detective draw blood from an unconscious patient without a warrant at Salt Lake City-based University…
A district judge on Tuesday sentenced a former 20-year employee at the National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Md., to six months in federal prison.
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From St. Louis-based Ascension Health agreeing to pay a $29.5 million settlement over allegations of improperly exempting a retirement plan from federal law to an anesthesiologist filing four antitrust complaints against Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., here are the latest…
The Food and Drug Administration's Office of Prescription Drug Promotion issued a warning letter to Cipher Pharmaceuticals last month, demanding the Canadian drugmaker discontinue the use of misleading promotional materials for its extended-release opioid ConZip.
A New Orleans-based physician pled guilty Thursday to federal charges of money laundering and illegally dispensing controlled substances, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office of Eastern District of Louisiana.
St. Louis-based Ascension Health ended a class-action lawsuit filed against the system and subsidiary Wheaton Franciscan Services in Glendale, Wis., alleging Wheaton erroneously treated its pension plan as a "church plan" exempt from the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act,…
Matthew Kumar, MD, has filed four antitrust complaints since 2015 against his longtime employer, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Health System, according to the Post Bulletin.