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Clinical Care
FBI Investigating Newark Beth Israel's Transplant Program for Possible Fraud
The medical center's transplant director instructed staff to keep a vegetative patient alive, and not to discuss options such as...
Strategy
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.
Strategy
Foundation to Pay $4M to Settle Kickback Allegations
The Assistance Fund is the third foundation to settle allegations of conspiring with drug makers.
Finance
KY Hospital to Pay $10.1M to Resolve False Claims, Anti-kickback Allegations
The settlement resolves allegations that the hospital knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare for drugs that did not meet coverage...
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.
Strategy
Inside Purdue Pharma's Media Playbook: How It Planted the Opioid 'Anti-Story'
OxyContin's makers delayed the reckoning for their role in the opioid crisis by funding think tanks, placing friendly experts on...
Finance
CMS Readies Proposed 'Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule'
Seema Verma says the feds will crackdown on 'shady recycling schemes (that) drive up taxpayer costs and pervert the system.'
Strategy
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...
Texas Healthcare Execs Guilty in $150M Hospice Scam
The schemers falsely told patients they had only six months to live in a ploy to collect hospice payments.
Strategy
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...
Foundations Pay $6M to Settle Allegations of Enabling Medicare Kickbacks
Chronic Disease Fund, Inc., and Patient Access Network Foundation allegedly worked with drug makers to funnel money to Medicare patients...