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In today’s ever-evolving healthcare landscape, providers increasingly feel the pressure of dwindling reimbursement rates and the complexities of numerous payer agreements.

Escondido, Calif.-based Veni-Express, a mobile phlebotomy lab, and its owners have agreed to pay at least $135,000 to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims for mobile phlebotomy services and related travel mileage.

A physician in Tipton, Iowa, was found liable for a LeClaire, Iowa, man's death after being sued by the man's daughter, CBS2 Iowa reported Oct. 23.

A Dallas pharmacy owner was sentenced to prison for billing insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams and scar creams that were never given to patients.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based medical group General Physician, PC, filed a notice of data breach with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to an Oct. 23 report published by JDSupra. 

At least  one injury has been reported after a vehicle collided into a Norfolk, Neb.-based medical office building, according to an Oct. 23 report from News Channel Nebraska.

The owners of DYD Universe, a Monroe, N.Y.-based, Medicaid-enrolled transportation company, pleaded guilty to defrauding the program of over $2.1 million through illegal kickbacks. 

TriHealth has closed a Cincinnati-based clinic specializing in the treatment of fibromyalgia and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome following the departure of a physician, WKRC reported Oct. 22

A physician East Setauket, N.Y., was charged for allegedly accepting kickbacks for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans. 

Portland, Ore., area systems, including OHSU, Kaiser Permanente, Providence and Legacy have all begun conserving IV fluids and monitoring their inventories amid a growing nationwide shortage, according to an Oct. 18 report from ABC affiliate KATU.