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Did Maryland Hospital Use Counterfeit Spinal Hardware?

July 22, 2015

A Maryland hospital has reportedly been sued by health insurers that allege that some spinal fusion patients who had their surgeries at the hospital may have been implanted with counterfeit spinal hardware. A spine surgeon who operated at the Maryland hospital has also been named in lawsuits, whic[...]

California Lawsuit Alleges Counterfeit Spinal Hardware Used During Surgeries

June 25, 2015

Lawyers in California filed a lawsuit in February 2015, which was unsealed on May 28, 2015, alleging that 15 spine surgeons, 17 hospitals, and many others engaged in a health care fraud scheme and in a conspiracy by knowingly implanting counterfeit spinal hardware into patients in California, Maryla[...]

Largest Medicare Fraud Sweep Involving $712M In Alleged Medicare False Billings

June 24, 2015

On June 18, 2015, the U.S. Attorney General and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the largest nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, resulting in charges against 243 individuals, including 46 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, fo[...]

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Plastic Left In Patient’s Abdomen Following Unnecessary Surgery

June 23, 2015

A woman filed a Baltimore medical malpractice lawsuit on June 12, 2015 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City alleging that the defendant surgeon who performed robotic-assisted surgery on her to remove her right ovary and fallopian tube, which she alleged was unnecessary surgery because she had S[...]

Study Finds Banned Medicare Miscreants Still Able To Bill State Medicaid Programs

May 5, 2015

A recent analysis of federal and state data by Reuters found that more than one-in-five of the physicians and other health care providers who have been banned from participating in Medicare nonetheless were able to bill state Medicaid programs: Reuters found 1,800 physicians and other health care p[...]

Were Medical Records Altered In Recently Settled Florida Medical Malpractice Case?

April 29, 2015

A Florida medical malpractice case that went to trial earlier this month and was settled after the parties’ closing arguments to the jury alleged that critical medical records had been altered after surgery in an effort to bolster the defense. A woman undergoing a hysterectomy in 2011 suff[...]

New, Additional Criminal Charges Filed Against Owner Of Maryland-Based Portable Diagnostic Services Company

April 13, 2015

On April 9, 2015, a federal grand jury in Maryland returned a superseding indictment against the owner of a Maryland-based portable diagnostic services company, charging him with an additional four counts of health care fraud resulting in serious bodily harm and death, as well as conspiracy a[...]

Delaware Medical Malpractice Case Involved Altered Medical Records

March 29, 2015

The Superior Court of Delaware issued a decision on February 17, 2014 in a Delaware case where it had been previously determined that the Delaware medical malpractice defendant physician and her physician’s assistant had altered their medical records for a four-day-old patient to make the[...]

7 Rhode Island OB Practices Settle Unapproved IUD Claims

March 22, 2015

Seven Rhode Island obstetrical practices have agreed to settle claims against them alleging that they implanted unapproved versions of the Mirena and ParaGard intrauterine devices (“IUDs”) in patients and then sought the higher reimbursement for FDA-approved IUDs. An IUD is a small T-s[...]

AstraZeneca Agrees To Pay $7.9M For Nexium Kickback Scheme

February 18, 2015

The large British, Delaware-based pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $7.9 million in order to resolve claims that it engaged in an illegal kickback scheme with a pharmacy benefits management company involving AstraZeneca’s acid reflux medication, Nexi[...]

$2.5M Medical Malpractice Settlement Involving Convicted Wisconsin Spine Surgeon

January 27, 2015

A Wisconsin medical malpractice case was settled for $2.5 million earlier this month just before it was scheduled to be tried before a jury beginning on January 6, 2015. The first $1 million of the malpractice settlement was paid by the former spine surgeon’s medical malpractice insurer, with[...]

Former Maryland VA Official Sentenced For Fraud

January 24, 2015

In December 2014, the 68-year-old former Deputy Chief of Veterans Claims in the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs was sentenced in federal court to a year and a day in prison, followed by two years of supervised probation, for extortion in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain ov[...]

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