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AmSurg has announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, reporting a decline in profits compared to the same period a year ago but an increase in revenues.

A licensed practical nurse and the mother of a disabled child from New York were arrested for conspiring to defraud Medicaid of over $32,000, according to an announcement by the N.Y. Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.

Dana Opfer, AUD, CCCA, an audiologist from Missouri, has been charged with three counts of Medicaid fraud, according to an announcement by Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster.

Ohio family physician Stacey Royal, MD, who was charged last year with submitting false claims, was indicted for seven more healthcare fraud-related charges by a Wood County grand jury, according to a report by the Toledo Blade.

Raul S. Ramirez, owner of Miami-based RA Medical Center, was convicted of healthcare fraud and money laundering, according to a news release by the U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of Florida.

Both Congressional and Senate Republican leaders are calling for hearings with the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Donald Berwick, MD, despite his appointment by President Obama during a Congressional recess, bypassing the traditional nomination process, according to…

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