The Justice Department issued a civil investigation demand to Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings on Nov. 3, according to a June 27 court document filed by Prospect.
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In the wake of the Supreme Court's overturning of Chevron deference, Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has filed a lawsuit against HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra challenging what the system calls the secretary's "irrational and unlawful interpretation of the statutes he is…
The new CMS price transparency rule went into effect July 1, requiring hospitals to report price information in a standard machine-readable format, according to the American Hospital Association.
A podiatrist in Memphis, Tenn., was sentenced to four years in prison for a scheme to defraud Medicare and the state's Medicaid program out of nearly $4 million in foot bath medication reimbursements.
A lead researcher for an Alzheimer's drug candidate was indicted June 27 in a case alleging he fabricated data, according to the Justice Department.
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In May, surveyors issued Jefferson Health's Abington (Pa.) Hospital an immediate jeopardy warning after determining a security guard used excessive force against a psychiatric patient who had not displayed aggressive behavior, according to an inspection report obtained by The Philadelphia…
Rishi Shah, co-founder and former CEO of healthcare technology startup Outcome Health, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme involving about $1 billion in fraudulently obtained funds, the Chicago Tribune…
OptumRx will pay $20 million to settle allegations it improperly dispensed some opioid medications, the Justice Department said June 27.
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling overturned a 40-year-old legal precedent known as Chevron deference, the Washington Post reported June 28.
The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against 193 defendants for their alleged participation in healthcare fraud schemes that involved around $2.75 billion in intended losses and $1.6 billion in actual losses.