Andrew L. Sokol and Julie B. Weisberg, licensed chiropractors based in Marietta, Ga., were arraigned on charges they submitted millions of dollars of fraudulent insurance claims to Blue Cross Blue Shield and other private insurers for physical therapy services that…
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Harborside Healthcare and HHC Nutrition Services have agreed to pay the U.S. government $1.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the company received kickbacks and assistance under the guise of a sham durable medical equipment provider, according to…
Physicians at Pueblo (Colo.) Surgery Center recently performed free surgeries for 37 uninsured Coloradoans, according to a report by the Denver Post.
Three Miami-Dade County, Fla., residents have been indicted for their roles in an alleged $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme operated out of X-Press Center, a Detroit-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing injection and infusion therapies, according to a…
The cost and quality of healthcare, as well as access to care and health outcomes, continue to vary widely among states, according to the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System's 2009 State Scorecard report.
Major construction has been completed on the new St. John's Mercy three-story, 125,000 square-foot outpatient center in St. Louis County, Mo., according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Highland Springs Medical Plaza in Beaumont, Calif., recently opened and began treating patients, according to a report by The Sun.
Kelly Dean Shrum, MD, an obstetrician and gynecologist based in Pine Bluff, Ark., has been indicted on charges of healthcare fraud, misbranding and money laundering by a federal grand jury, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Biomet has announced the financial results for its first fiscal quarter of 2010 ending Aug. 31, 2009, according to a Biomet news release.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) reported that around 1,040 qui tam cases remain unresolved because the federal government has yet to decide whether to get involved, according to a news release from Sen. Grassley.