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Ex-Execs at Outcome Health Charged in $1B Fraud Scheme
The co-founders of the start-up allegedly enriched themselves by fraudulently inflating revenues and the extent and effect of their advertising.
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Foundation to Pay $4M to Settle Kickback Allegations
The Assistance Fund is the third foundation to settle allegations of conspiring with drug makers.
Clinical Care
DOJ Levels False Claims, Kickback Allegations Against a South Dakota Neurosurgeon
DOJ last month resolved related civil complaints against Sanford Health, which agreed to pay $20.2 million.
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Former CEO Agrees to Sell 13 Properties to Settle False Claims Case
The settlement follows a separate criminal conviction, for which the ex-exec has already been sentenced to prison.
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Life Spine, Top Execs, to Pay $6M to Settle Kickback Allegations
The company 'aggressively recruited' dozens of surgeons with the potential to use a high volume of the company's products and...
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Outcome Health to Pay $70M to End Fraud Probe
Among the allegations, former executives at Outcome lied to outside auditors about revenue for 2015 and 2016 in order to...
Clinical Care
Medicare Fraud Carries Heavy Price Tag for Scammed Patients
Medicare patients treated by clinicians who are later banned for fraud and abuse are 14% to 17% more likely to...
Hospital Execs Charged With Misuse of FHA Loan
The defendants allegedly schemed to improperly obtain a $164 million FHA-backed loan to build a for-profit hospital in Texas.
Finance
Texas Hospital Exec Gets 10 Years in Prison For $16M Fraud Scheme
Starsky Bomer, 46, the former CFO/COO at Atrium Medical Center Pristine Healthcare, was also ordered to pay more than $6.2...
Charges Brought Against 34 Suspects in $258M Multistate Fraud Schemes
Federal prosecutors arrest suspects in three states in various alleged schemes to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, employee health plans, and private...
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Nonprofit Hospitals and Antitrust Enforcement: Should FTC Have Jurisdiction?
'We ought to consider that,' said Sen. Chuck Grassley during a hearing with witnesses from FTC and DOJ regulators, who...
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Eroding Competition: Nearly 3 in 4 Healthcare Markets Highly Concentrated
Consolidation advanced noticeably between 2012 and 2016, according to a report by the Health Care Cost Institute.