A recent memo by the U.S. Department of Justice shows the government is taking a strong stance on pursuing healthcare executives involved in fraud allegations.
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Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, Calif., has filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County and its board of supervisors, claiming the county has failed to properly allocate and administer billions of dollars of property tax revenue to trauma centers.
Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, N.J., has hired a Washington, D.C.-based law firm to fight a proposed federal fine against the hospital after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the hospital for allegedly failing to protect employees from violent patients,…
The following is a roundup of recent lawsuits and settlements involving cases filed under the qui tam, or whistle-blower, provision of the False Claims Act, beginning with the most recent.
The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of AIG, has agreed to pay $430,000 to settle allegations it sold unauthorized health insurance to consumers in Massachusetts, according to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.
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A physician, his attorney and more than a dozen others have been indicted for their roles in one of the largest insurance fraud scams in California history, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
A 27-year-old man who stabbed a nurse at Sylmar, Calif.-based Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in April 2014 was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in state prison, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
A recent American Medical Association report argues that a recent court ruling will make it easier for insurers to terminate doctors, according to a recent EmCare blog post.
Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has threatened to sue the state of Vermont for not paying sufficient Medicaid rates, according to VT Digger.
Two former Humana employees have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $100,000 each in restitution and forfeit $900,000 each for their roles in a racketeering and bribery scheme, according to the Department of Justice.