A former pediatrician from Decatur, Ill., has been sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to fraudulently billing health insurance companies for free vaccines she received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a Herald-Review news…
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CHRISTUS Health, a hospital system based in Houston, has agreed to pay almost $1 million to settle allegations that it committed Medicare fraud by falsely billing the federal healthcare program for unapproved medical costs and failing to disclose overpayments, according…
Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has announced it has broken ground on a new ASC as part of a roughly $66 million, 78,000-square-foot expansion project.
Author Nicholas Newsad's "The Medical Bill Survival Guide: Easy, Effective Strategies for People Experiencing Financial Hardship" received national media coverage when it was published last month, including a positive review in HFMA's Healthcare Financial Management. In this column, Mr. Newsad…
Pittsburgh, Pa.-based West Penn Allegheny Health System has announced it has broken ground on a new ASC in Peters Township, Pa., just south of Pittsburgh.
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An employee of Blountstown, Fla.-based Calhoun Liberty Hospital has been accused of conspiring with his peer to take out life insurance policies on a patient of the hospital, according to a News Herald report.
The whistleblower in a case against Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans is petitioning to bar Florida's Attorney General Bill McCollum from participating in the multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud settlement, according to a BusinessWeek news report.
Merck, a pharmaceutical company based in Whitehouse Station, N.J., has announced it will appeal a federal verdict that found the company liable to pay $4.6 million for allegedly overcharging Massachusetts Medicaid, according to a company news release.
The Florida Board of Medicine handed down penalties to six physicians for fraudulently prescribing controlled substances to patients, according to a St. Petersburg Times news report.
1. While ACOs have been promoted as part of the Healthcare Reform Act for Medicare patients, and pilot programs are being established, the real movement with ACOs seems to be with commercial payors at the moment. Further, the acceleration of…