Tags: Connecticut | Johnson Memorial Hospital | Medicare | overbilling

Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs, Conn., has agreed to pay $191,193 to resolve allegations that it improperly billed Medicare between 2000 and 2005, according to a report by the Hartford Courant.

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Tags: embezzlement | indictment | Massachusetts | South Shore Hospital

The former director of the cardiovascular center at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass., has been charged with embezzling donations to the hospital's fundraising program and from other hospital sources, according to a report by the Enterprise News.

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Tags: Memorial Hermann Healthcare | Town & Country Hospital

In a lawsuit against Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, six physician-investors in a failed hospital assert that Hermann drove it out of business by threatening to change reimbursement rates with private payors that contracted with the new hospital, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.
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Tags: Baptist Memorial Healthcare | class action | Methodist Healthcare | nurses wages | Tennessee

A judge for the U.S. District Court for Western Tennessee has rejected class action certification for plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleges a conspiracy to depress nurses' wages by Memphis-area hospitals, according to a report in AHA News Now.
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Tags: health reform | opt-out

Conservative politicians in states such as Florida and Arizona are proposing measures to opt out of federal health reform legislation, according to a report by the New York Times.
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Tags: Physician Hospitals of America | physician-owned hospital ban | physician-owned hospitals

About 75 of the 127 physician-owned hospitals under construction wouldn't meet the new Aug. 1, 2010, deadline in the revised Senate health reform bill, according to an informal count by Physician Hospitals of America.
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Tags: healthcare reform | Physician Hospitals of America | physician-owned hospitals

An extension on the deadline from Feb. 1, 2010, to Aug. 1, 2010, for a proposed ban on physician-owned hospitals was included in "Manager's Amendment" to the Senate health reform bill just before it went to a vote, according to a copy of the 383-page Manager's Amendment.
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Tags: durable medical equipment | healthcare fraud | Pennsylvania | R&V Medical Supplies | Robert Saul | Sheila Saul

R&V Medical Supplies, LLC, located in Philadelphia, Robert Saul and Sheila Saul were indicted on charges that they allegedly conspired to defraud Medicare and other healthcare benefit programs by submitting more than $1.2 million in fraudulent claims for reimbursement for durable medical equipment, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Tags: Detroit | Michigan | SCCI Hospitals

SCCI Hospitals has paid $830,000 to settle claims that its Detroit facility overbilled Medicare for services, according to a report by WLNS News.
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Tags: Congress | healthcare reform | physician-owned hospitals | RetireSafe

RetireSafe, which represents 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, called on the U.S. House of Representatives to stop the proposed rationing of high-quality hospital care to Medicare patients and to turnover proposed limits on physician-owned hospitals, according to a RetireSafe news release.
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Tags: false claims | Kaiser NW | Kaiser Permanente | Oregon

Kaiser Permanente's Oregon division, Kaiser NW, which includes Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas, Ore., Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente Physicians & Surgeons has agreed to pay the United States $1.83 million to settle allegations that the group submitted false claims to Medicare between 2000 and 2004, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.
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