HHS' Office of the Inspector General has released the results from its onsite review of the Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Control Unit that revealed the unit did not meet all of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit performance standards.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
The vast majority of attendees at the American Health Information Management Association's ICD-10 summit in Washington, D.C., April 22-23, reported disappointment in the recent delay of the ICD-10 mandate.
The Department of Justice has issued seven more subpoenas to Birmingham, Ala.-based HealthSouth's hospitals in connection with a Medicare fraud investigation.
America's Health Insurance Plans is now a member of the Coalition for ICD-10, a group of prominent industry stakeholders and organizations that support the adoption of the new coding system.
Ashokkumar Babaria, MD, a radiologist who owned and operated Orange (N.J.) MRI, a diagnostic testing center, has been ordered to forfeit more than $2 million in fraudulent claims, pay a $25,000 fine and has been sentenced to 46 months in…
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The following lawsuits and settlements involving hospitals were reported within the last 30 days, beginning with the most recent.
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama signed legislation that delays the transition to ICD-10 coding by at least one year.
The Regents of the University of California, the university systems's governing body, have agreed to pay $10 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging conflicts of interest concerning UCLA medical school physicians, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Reynaldo Estrada, a former employee of Crozer-Chester (Pa.) MedicalCenter and Chester, Pa.-based Community Hospital, has pleaded guilty to stealing hospital patients' identities as part of a tax fraud scheme, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has held it will not reconsider its ruling that overturned a $1.2 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson over its marketing of the antipsychotic prescription drug Risperdal for off-label uses, according to an Arkansas News report.