Medicaid Fraud Control Units across the nation reported 1,318 criminal convictions in fiscal 2014, similar to the previous year's total of 1,344 criminal convictions, according to the HHS Office of Inspector General's Medicaid Fraud Control Units Fiscal Year 2014 Annual…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
A group of veterans has filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs claiming the agency is not turning over medical records that will allow them to receive disability benefits, according to a Daily Press report.
The following is a roundup of recently introduced legislation and legislative developments affecting the healthcare industry.
Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, Texas, has agreed to pay the federal government $21.75 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law by having improper financial relationships with referring physicians, according to the Department of…
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System's request for a rehearing of its antitrust case before a full panel of judges.
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A Texas district judge has temporarily stopped Arlington-based Texas Health Resources from pursuing a worker's compensation claim for nurse Nina Pham, who was infected with Ebola while caring for the first U.S. patient with the deadly disease, The Dallas Morning…
Indianapolis-based IU Health is facing a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging it engaged in a fraud scheme that put low-income pregnant woman and their newborn babies at risk, according to an Indianapolis Business Journal report.
Republican congressional leaders have essentially abandoned the fight to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a Los Angeles Timesreport.
The lawsuit involving a hospital owner a healthcare law firm and accusations of deception and conspiracy was criticized, but not tossed, by a federal judge in Louisiana on April 15, according to a Law 360 report.
The First Circuit has denied King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services' petition for an en banc rehearing on the revival and remand of a False Claims Act case that was filed against the for-profit hospital operator, according to a…