A Louisiana man pleaded guilty to his role in a $3.8 million fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary medical equipment and physician kickbacks, the Justice Department said in a June 5 news release. What happened? What’s next?
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A Houston pain management physician agreed to pay $390,082 to settle allegations that he submitted false Medicare claims for surgical implantation of neurostimulator electrodes, the Justice Department said in a June 3 release. What happened?
A class action lawsuit accuses Charleston (W.Va.) Area Medical Center (CAMC) and two former physicians of performing medically unnecessary paraesophageal hernia repairs, often without patient consent, during bariatric surgeries, WCHS reported June 3. What happened?
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center’s cardiac surgery program has earned a three-star rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The three-star accolade is the highest awarded by the STS, according to a June 5 news release. Penn…
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has vetoed a piece of legislation that would allow optometrists in the state to perform laser eye surgeries, according to an April 11 report from radio station KUNM. The move was supported by the…
Rural areas of Tennessee lost hundreds of independent physicians between 2019 and 2024, according to a recent report by the Physicians Advocacy Institute. During that period, rural Tennessee lost 362 independent physicians and 344 independent medical practices. According to a…
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A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that healthcare practitioners and organizations may pursue lawsuits alleging that MultiPlan and a group of payers colluded to underpay providers by tens of billions of dollars. MultiPlan, a technology provider that rebranded as…
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