DOJ charges dozens for $1.2B in telemedicine fraud scheme
The charges involve some of the first cases in the country involving fraudulent cardiovascular genetic testing, a “burgeoning scheme,” according to a news release from […]
The charges involve some of the first cases in the country involving fraudulent cardiovascular genetic testing, a “burgeoning scheme,” according to a news release from […]
The federal government saw a return of nearly $1.9 billion in health care fraud settlements and judgments in 2021. Of this $1.9 billion, the Medicare […]
The sorry saga of Theranos continues with the conviction of Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, the blood testing biotech’s former chief operating officer, for fraud. Balwani (57) […]
Gilead has won a crucial court order in a wide-ranging lawsuit against a network of clinics, prescribers, medical labs and pharmacies in Florida that it […]
Compassionate Homecare Inc., has agreed to pay $6.53 million to MassHealth in order to resolve allegations of unauthorized billing for services. The settlement irons out […]
The man who sent the price of lifesaving drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine) rocketing from $13.50 a tablet to $750 overnight has been ordered to repay $64.6m […]
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former chief executive of the blood testing startup Theranos, has been convicted of defrauding investors by a jury in a […]
The California-based health system and insurer has bilked CMS out of “hundreds of millions of dollars” by submitting claims that were altered to make patients […]
A previous investigation by MedCity News found that ElectrifAi was touting an improperly-developed algorithm during the earliest phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, with both the […]
The California-based health system will pay a hefty price to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted inflated diagnosis codes for certain Medicare Advantage beneficiaries to […]
Patchy patient data has plagued the healthcare industry for decades, but the pandemic opened the door to a whole new set of identity management challenges. […]
A jury in the US has charged a Florida man who owns multiple telemedicine companies in connection with a massive healthcare scam that involved a […]
The government has intervened in complaints alleging Kaiser Permanente entities defrauded Medicare out of “tens of millions of dollars” by knowingly submitting false diagnoses for […]
Home health enforcement efforts have been on the rise in 2021, especially over the past couple of months. There have been developments with at least […]
Home health providers in the U.S. have paid at least $422.6 million to settle False Claims Act (FCA) allegations since 2012, according to a recently […]
Healthcare data breaches are nothing new, but their size and frequency are increasing: CVS Health lost over a billion search records when a third party […]
The agency charged the co-founders of the failed fecal microbiome startup with defrauding investors. The SEC is seeking a court order that would bar uBiome’s […]
When a public health emergency was declared last March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a variety of waivers allowing home health […]
The federal government saw $2.2 billion in civil fraud recoveries in 2020. Roughly 82% of those settlements and judgments — about $1.8 billion — were […]
There is no shortage of data in the healthcare industry. Unfortunately, more data doesn’t always mean better data – especially when it comes to patient […]
Over the past few weeks, government officials have seemingly restarted their aggressive oversight of Medicare-certified home health agencies. For much of 2020, government watchdogs took […]
Doctor’s Choice Home Care Inc. and two former executives have agreed to pay $5.15 million to resolve allegations that the home health agency provided “improper […]
A Massachusetts-based home health company and its owners will pay millions of dollars to resolve allegations that they falsely billed the state’s Medicaid program, MassHealth. […]
The investigation resulted in charges against more than 345 defendants for more than $6 billion in alleged fraud losses. Roughly $4.5 billion of that was […]
Health insurer Humana has filed a lawsuit against telemedicine company QuivvyTech that it says resulted in fraudulent prescriptions worth millions of dollars being written for […]
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