April Santiago of Fairfield, Ill., a certified nurse assistant in a physician's office in Norris City, Ill., has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud and was sentenced to two years' probation and ordered to pay restitution, according to a report by…
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Stan Holm, CEO of Pasco Regional Medical Center in Dade City, Fla., recently appeared in the St. Petersburg Times as an author of an op-ed piece in support of physician-owned hospitals.
David Illingworth, CEO of Smith & Nephew, has said that he expects the orthopedic device market slowdown to continue for several months as individuals defer procedures as a result of the economic downturn, according to a report in the Wall…
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the administration will rescind all or part of three Medicaid regulations that were previously issued and delay the enforcement of a fourth regulation, according to an HHS news release.
Jeffrey McElveen of Franklinton, La., and Robert Cleveland, MD, of Greenburg, La., pleaded guilty to charges of healthcare fraud, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.
Chaunsay Beckwith of Tucker, Ga., was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison and more than $1 million in restitution for healthcare fraud, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
The 7th Circuit Federal Appellate Court has ruled that a recent lawsuit brought forth by a physician-partner of an Illinois surgery center when the center attempted to revoke his partnership because he failed to perform one-third of his cases at…
Two Houston, Texas-area physicians, Arun Sharma, MD, and Kiran Sharma, MD, were charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, costing Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers $9 million, according to a report by KIAH News.
Two insurance agents — Brent A. Carter of Harlington, Texas, and Michael N. Swetnam, Jr., of Los Fresnos, Texas — were charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraud in a scheme against Valley Baptist Hospital in South Texas, according…
Devendra K. Varma, MD, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was charged with a criminal charge that is "basically" healthcare fraud, according to a report in the Southeast Missourian.