MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and George Washington University Hospital, both based in D.C., are being sued by three patients who allege they were charged excessively and illegally to obtain copies of their EMRs, according to the Washington Business Journal.
A former supervisor in the claims department at Pittsburgh-based UPMC has pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges in connection with a scheme that involved submitting 156 false billing statements on the UPMC system and receiving payments totaling more than $184,000,…
From a Florida health system agreeing to pay a record-breaking amount to settle improper physician compensation claims to the federal government alleging a hospital owner billed Medicare for BMWs, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
On June 30th, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced the creation of a new group of up to 10 attorneys entirely focused on seeking Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) and the…
In April 2015, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) published its first new guidebook in 13 years. It includes a significant expansion of the NPDB’s definition of an investigation with direct impact on reporting requirements for physicians or dentists who…
The American Bar Association's Health Law Section has recognized the law firms with the largest number of members in the ABA Health Law Section in the following regions: South, Southeast, Midwest, West and Northeast.
The following hospitals and health systems entered into settlement agreements to resolve alleged violations of Stark Law in the past three months.
The CEOs of health insurers Aetna and Anthem defended their mega-merger deals before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The former owner and CEO of Edgewater Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, Peter Rogan, has pleaded guilty to a criminal perjury charge stemming from the hospital's financial collapse in 2002, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The House on Friday approved legislation to defund Planned Parenthood for one year, according to Politico.
