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Large Hospitalist Company Charged With Medicare False Billings Scheme

June 22, 2014

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on June 17, 2014 that it is intervening in a federal whistleblower lawsuit (qui tam lawsuit) alleging that a large California-based hospitalist company that employs 2,500 hospitalists (physicians who work only in hospitals and other long-term care facilitie[...]

South Dakota Lawsuit Alleges Money Improperly Motivated Physician-Owned Hospital

June 10, 2014

A recently filed lawsuit by the former CEO of a physician-owned South Dakota hospital alleges what many people firmly believe about physician-owned hospitals: money motivates medical decisions, even if the decisions are not in the best interests of patients. The South Dakota lawsuit filed by the CEO[...]

$9.9M False Claims Settlement To Be Paid By Medtronic

June 7, 2014

On May 28, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Medtronic, Inc., the large medical device manufacturer based in Fridley, Minnesota, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $9.9 million to settle claims that it paid illegal kickbacks to physicians to induce them to implant Medtronic̵[...]

VA Health Care Scandal: What Other Issues Plague The VA?

June 4, 2014

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has come under recent but prolonged fire for the manner in which the VA handles the scheduling of veterans’ medical appointments and how the VA falsely reported the amount of time it took for veterans to receive medical services through the VA healt[...]

Doctors Practicing Medicine Not Highest Paid In Medical Industry

June 1, 2014

If you thought that physicians providing health care to patients were at or near the top of the list of the highest earners in the medical industry, you would be wrong — they are in the middle of the pack. An analysis undertaken on behalf of The New York Times found that the base pay […[...]

How To Fix The VA Health Care System Scandals

May 20, 2014

Everyone in the United States is outraged and disgusted by recent allegations that the VA Health Care system has been surreptitiously falsifying the statistics regarding the time it takes for our veterans to obtain medical appointments and to receive necessary medical care at VA medical facilities i[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Allege Unnecessary Implanted Cardiac Devices

May 11, 2014

A Lake County, Indiana cardiologist is facing two medical malpractice lawsuits by two former patients whom both allege that the cardiologist implanted unnecessary cardiac devices in them. A separate federal whistleblower lawsuit has also been filed against the cardiologist and the hospital where he [...]

Medicare False Claims Whistleblower To Receive $15M

May 1, 2014

An Alabama nurse will receive $15 million as her share of the settlement proceeds from a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit she filed against her former employer, a Louisiana-based home healthcare company that operates in 37 U.S. states. Her former employer has agreed to pay $150 million to [...]

Georgia Radiology Technician Guilty Of Falsifying More Than 1,200 Mammograms

April 20, 2014

A former Georgia radiology technician who worked in a local hospital pleaded guilty and received a 6-month jail sentence for allegedly entering the results from more than 1,200 mammograms as negative. Ten women whose mammogram results were entered by the technician as negative had breast cancer at [...]

Kansas Neurosurgeon Consents To Two-Year License Suspension

April 2, 2014

Pursuant to a Consent Order dated February 14, 2014, the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, which is the sole and exclusive administrative agency in the State of Kansas authorized to regulate the practice of the healing arts (“Board”), suspended the Kansas medical license of a neuros[...]

Former New York Surgeon Sentenced To 4.5 Years In Federal Prison

March 22, 2014

A former New York orthopedic surgeon who admitted to defrauding the U.S. government and health insurance providers in a scheme that ran from 2007 and 2011, during which the surgeon and his medical practice filed claims in excess of $35 million that resulted in $13 million in payments, was sentence[...]

Kentucky Heart Hospital Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Filed

March 11, 2014

On March 4, 2014, two Kentucky medical malpractice lawsuits were filed on behalf of more than 500 plaintiffs against Kentucky’s King’s Daughters Medical Center (“KDMC”), a recently retired heart surgeon for whom the hospital’s heart institute was named, and other defendant[...]

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