The owner of Chicago-based Hexagram Home Health Care received a 17-count indictment for Medicare fraud, according to the FBI.
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Roughly 800 nurses in Minnesota will receive thousands of dollars in repayments from a testing preparation company accused of falsely promising to help expedite licensed practical nurses' path to becoming registered nurses, according to the Star Tribune.
A federal judge has appointed a trustee and ordered Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System to sell Saltzer Medical Group in Nampa, Idaho, within the next 12 months, according to an Idaho Statesman report.
In a letter, Consumer Watchdog called on the Department of Managed Health Care to enact consumer safeguards over the proposed merger between St. Louis-based Centene and Los Angeles-based Health Net.
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal court claiming Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine made false allegations against the group in an attempt to ban abortion.
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The Food and Drug Administration aims next year to toughen up regulations on the lab-developed testing industry, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal.
From Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America being ordered to pay millions for its failure to fulfill pledges it made when it acquired several Missouri hospitals to Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna settling a shareholder class-action lawsuit, here are the latest healthcare…
The growth in False Claims Act cases and recoveries over the past 28 years is overwhelmingly attributable to the surge healthcare-related qui tam lawsuits, according to a recent report by Mintz Levin.
Not only do many inequities exist between Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization program, but the programs are also in direct conflict, David Introcaso, PhD, wrote for the American Journal of Managed Care.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America has been ordered to pay nearly $434 million to the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City for allegedly failing to fulfill pledges it made when it bought several hospitals in 2003, according to…