Broward Health's former compliance director claims he was fired for bringing attention to illegal activities at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based public health system, according to a Sun Sentinel report.
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A patient stabbed a security guard at Summa St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio, Tuesday evening, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
After a line drive shot straight into the right hand of Lawrence Schlachter, MD, and shattered bones, his career as a neurosurgeon was over. But Dr. Schlachter's new career as a medical malpractice attorney was just beginning.
Pfizer said its Wyeth unit has agreed to pay a $784.6 million settlement for cases related to the calculation of Medicaid rebates for a gastric drug sold between 2001 and 2006, according to Reuters.
The heart surgeon at the center of the CNN exposé in early June that led to the closing of St. Mary's Hospital's pediatric heart surgery program and the resignation of hospital CEO David Carbone has fired back against the cable…
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A Florida teenager, Malachi Love-Robinson, is accused of pretending to be a physician for the second time in just over a year.
A Westfield, N.J.-based physician, Labib E. Riachi, MD, has agreed to pay the federal government $5.25 million to resolve allegations that he and two of his companies fraudulently billed federal healthcare programs for tests that were never provided, according to…
Highland Physicians, a Kingsport, Tenn.-based independent practice association, has sued local Wellmont Health System, claiming the health system has spent six years working to destroy the association, according to the Kingsport Times-News.
Another state has approved Aetna's acquisition of Humana, according to the Miami Herald.
A Chicago man has been charged in federal court for impersonating a psychiatrist and making dozens of fraudulent medication prescriptions, according to a Friday Department of Justice memo.