The American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals and the Association of American Medical Colleges have filed a friend-of-the-court brief, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court decision that expands False Claims Act liability.
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A 78-year-old former physician who practiced medicine in Niagara Falls, N.Y., has been sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to illegally dispense controlled substances from his medical office, according to the Department of Justice.
A pair of shoplifters were arrested in Broken Arrow, Okla., for taking physician's orders a few steps too far.
New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System has urged a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Boston-based Steward Healthcare, claiming Steward failed to state a claim under federal or state antitrust law.
A Louisiana federal judge has ruled part of a controversial 2014 state law — one requiring abortion clinic physicians to have admitting privileges to a hospital with obstetrical and gynecological services within 30 miles of the clinic where the abortion…
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The former CEO of a hospital-physician joint venture in Roseburg, Ore., has filed a federal lawsuit against his former employer, claiming he was fired for reporting $10 million in fraudulent Medicare payments, according to The Oregonian.
A U.S. district court judge found Baltimore-based JohnsHopkinsHospital violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act when officials rescinded a job offer to a deaf nurse following her request for a sign language interpreter, reports The Baltimore Sun.
Two anti-abortion activists and leaders of the Center for Medical Progress who made undercover videos of Planned Parenthood were indicted by a grand jury in Houston on felony and misdemeanor charges, according to The New York Times.
Banio Koroma, MD, a physician at now-shuttered Mobile Doctors in Chicago, has been convicted on federal fraud charges, according to the Department of Justice.
CenterLight Healthcare and CenterLight Health System have agreed to a $46.7 million settlement to resolve claims the companies enrolled ineligible members in the CenterLight Healthcare managed long-term care plan, according to the Department of Justice.