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Finance
OIG Audit Finds Hospital Upcodes Overbilled Medicare by $1BGovernment watchdogs are calling on CMS to recoup the overpayments.
Finance
TeamHealth Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Hospital, ER Billing FraudThe lawsuit was filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California late last week.
Covid-19
One Federal Agency Was Suing Him for Fraud. Another Paid His Company Millions for Masks.Court records show the federal government gave $20 million in contracts to a company partly controlled by a man with...
Finance
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....
Strategy
Harvard to Pay $1.3M to Settle Overbilling Allegations for NIH, HRSA GrantsThe university self-disclosed the overcharges to NIH and HRSA by a professor at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Strategy
DOJ Files First Civil Action for Alleged Coronavirus FraudFederal Court issues temporary restraining order against website offering fake COVID-19 vaccine.
Finance
4 Scary RevCycle Stories for Friday the 13th From using blanket advance beneficiary notices to keeping credit card receipts in a shoe box, revenue cycles are filled with...
Strategy
Sandoz Will Pay $195M to Settle Price Fixing ChargesIt's the seventh such settlement reached by DOJ's Antitrust Division in its ongoing probe of the generic pharmaceutical industry.
Strategy
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...
Finance
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...
Finance
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...