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Wheeling Hospital to Pay $50M to Settle Stark, Anti-Kickback AllegationsThe settlement does not mandate a standard, five-year monitoring agreement for the hospital, nor an admission of wrongdoing on the...
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Konica Minolta Healthcare to Pay $500K to Settle False Claims Act AllegationsFederal prosecutors claim that Viztek LLC, a former subsidiary of Konica Minolta, falsely claimed that its EHR software was HHS...
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Hospital Executive Charged in $1.4B Rural Hospital Billing SchemeProsecutors allege that Jorge A. Perez, 60, and nine others exploited federal regulations that allow some rural hospitals to charge...
Ex-Cleveland Clinic Researcher Arrested, Charged with Wire Fraud
Dr. Qing Wang allegedly failed to disclose to NIH that he was also receiving grant money from the Chinese government....
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Pandemic Delays Federal Probe Into Medicare Advantage Health PlansCMS says the decision will allow insurers and the agency to "focus on patient care," and will last "until after...
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Texas Physicians Group Pays $1.2M to Settle False Claims AllegationsA whistleblower complaint alleged that Millennium Physicians Association PLLC billed Medicare for sleep studies conducted by uncredentialed technicians.
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Guardian Elder Care to Pay $15.4M to Settle Overbilling AllegationsGuardian directed its nursing facilities in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio to upcharge Medicare at the highest level for medically...
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We Showed How Easy It Is to Commit Health Care Fraud. Now Senators Want to Close the Loophole. The bipartisan proposal comes in response to a ProPublica story that showed how a personal trainer posed as a doctor...
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Practice Fusion to Pay $145M to Settle Criminal, Civil Kickbacks AllegationsThe San Francisco-based EHR vendor admitted that it took $1 million in kickbacks from opioid makers in a scheme to...
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Patient Services Inc. to Pay $3M for Alleged Role as Illegal Conduit for Drug Makers PSI coordinated with three pharmaceutical manufacturers ? Insys, Aegerion, and Alexion ? to facilitate paying kickbacks to Medicare patients taking...
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ResMed to Pay $39.5M to Settle Kickback AllegationsThe kickbacks took the form of free 'resupply services' for provider-customers who pushed their CPAP products.
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DOJ Collected $2.6B in FCA Recoveries in 2019 from the Healthcare SectorIt's the 10th straight year that DOJ's civil healthcare fraud settlements and judgments have exceeded $2 billion.