A New Orleans psychiatrist was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for her role in a healthcare fraud scheme, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
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The owners and operators of two Miami medical clinics, and a phlebotomist at one of the clinics, have pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to submit approximately $5.3 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, according to the U.S. attorney for…
The owners and operators of two Miami medical clinics, and a phlebotomist at one of the clinics, have pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to submit approximately $5.3 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, according to the U.S. attorney for…
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Orthopaedics Northeast, with more than 10 locations in Indiana, is planning to build a new surgery center, according to the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly.
For a cardiovascular program to become successful, it requires several critical components, says Edward Kasper, MD, FACC, chief of clinical cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
A revolution in healthcare is under way, and it is not in the form of the much heralded reform effort building on Capitol Hill. The consumerization of healthcare is happening now. Patients and their families increasingly approach healthcare decisions as…
In anticipation of a new presidential administration, CMS has recapped its roadmap for reshaping Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service program through market-based and value-purchasing initiatives intended to improve quality and reduce costs.
HHS' Inspector General Daniel Levinson has announced that the agency charged with protecting Medicare and Medicaid and other HHS' program funding from waste, fraud and error recovered $2.35 billion in fiscal 2008 ending Sept. 30, 2008.