From national accounting firm KPMG attempting to get a lawsuit filed by Pascagoula, Miss.-based Singing River Health System tossed to Notre Dame's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contraception challenge being revived, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits.
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Another person has admitted their involvement in a long-running fraud scheme involving Parsippany, N.J.-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services, according to the Department of Justice.
Karo Gotti Blkhoyan, who was convicted for stealing physicians' identities in order to defraud Medicare, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on March 10.
Recoveries involving false claims against healthcare programs made up a significant portion of the federal government's total $5.7 billion in civil fraud recoveries in 2014, according to a report from the law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims.
A bureaucratic problem left some Chicago hospital kitchens with no oversight for years, according to a CBS Chicago report.
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Nineteen healthcare lawsuits filed under the qui tam, or whistle-blower, provisions of the False Claims Act were unsealed in November and December 2014, according to a National Law Review report.
If health insurer Florida Blue and Orlando-based Florida Hospital do not come to an agreement over their contract by June 1, Florida Blue members will have to find new providers or pay out-of-network costs for care at Florida Hospital facilities,…
The U.S. Supreme Court has instructed the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago to reconsider its decision in a case brought by the University of Notre Dame, which challenges the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's contraception provision, according…
A New York physician has admitted he and other medical providers at his clinic submitted $14.2 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary treatments, according to the Department of Justice.
Federal investigators are preparing to file criminal charges against New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez (D), who has been the subject of an FBI investigation for more than two years due to his ties to Salomon Melgen, MD, according to The…