Leaders from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems are expecting less antitrust scrutiny under the incoming Trump administration's Federal Trade Commission.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
The owner of a Michigan home health company was sentenced to three years and five months in prison for his role in a $7.9 million Medicare fraud scheme.
A 63-year-old man was arrested in connection with the stabbing of his wife, who was a patient at Vallejo, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Fox affiliate KTVU reported Nov. 18.
A medical school in Fort Worth, Texas, allegedly illegally disposed of bodies after they were used for training and research, according to a cease-and-desist letter obtained by NBC News.
Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle allegations it submitted improperly modified claims to Medicaid.
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A New York physician pleaded guilty to receiving kickbacks in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans.
The Burbank Police Department in California has arrested a woman on suspicion of impersonating a registered nurse.
Pharmaceutical company QOL Medical and its CEO, Frederick Cooper, have agreed to pay $47 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by offering kickbacks to healthcare providers to induce prescriptions for their drug Sucraid.
Tulare (Calif.) County Superior Court on Nov. 14 sentenced a former hospital CEO for public corruption crimes related to his time at Healthcare Conglomerate Associates.
A second pharmaceutical giant is suing the federal government over 340B program change denials this week.