Fiaz Afzal, MD, an internist and owner of Claiborne Medical Corporation in Kenner, La., has been charged with Medicaid fraud, according to a news report by The Times-Picayune.
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Marc Hermelin, the former chairman of the board of Bridgeton, Mo.-based KV Pharmaceutical is the first executive of a drug company to be banned from participating in federal healthcare programs, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch news report.
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A new $3.2 million surgery center has broken ground in Waterloo, Ill., according to a report from Suburban Journals.
The Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners has tabled a proposed rule that would likely have prohibited CRNA interventional pain management practice, according to a Birmingham News report.