St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Del., has agreed to pay the federal government and the state of Delaware more than $4 million to resolve improper billing issues, according to the Department of Justice.
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New Jersey's dominant insurance company "schemed in secret" to intentionally exclude Catholic hospitals from a new plan, Sister Patricia Codey, president of the state's Catholic HealthCare Partnership said Monday, according to an NJ.com report.
Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital has agreed to pay a record $2.3 million settlement to resolve allegations its lax drug supply controls allowed two nurses to steal approximately 15,921 pain pills, according to The Boston Globe.
Shreveport-based Louisiana State University filed a lawsuit Sept. 25 against Biomedical Research Foundation, the private manager of two LSU hospitals, according to the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report.
A former army surgeon was sentenced to federal prison for his role in a $7.3 million scam, according to the Washington Times.
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A Westlake, Ohio-based cardiologist, Harold Persaud, MD, has been convicted of performing unnecessary catheterizations, test and stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and private insurers by $7.2 million, according…
The Washington attorney general filed a campaign finance complaint against Service Employees International Healthcare Union No. 775 on Thursday, alleging the union failed to properly file reports of in-kind and financial contributions as required by the state's campaign finance laws,…
Tim Joslin, president and CEO of Fresno, Calif.-based Community Medical Centers, was arrested for allegedly striking his girlfriend on the head with an iPhone, according to The Fresno Bee.
New York and federal regulators have ordered Health Republic Insurance of New York, a nonprofit insurance cooperative, to stop selling policies and to begin winding down business, according to a Bloomberg report.
A jury has found a suburban Detroit physician guilty of healthcare fraud and controlled substance distribution, according to an MLive report.