Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay
A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients' confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money. To show she [...]
Missouri hospital allegedly fired coder for refusing to ignore improper billing
Debra Conrad, a medical coder sued Mosaic Life Care Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo., May 25 for wrongful discharge, unlawful retaliation and age discrimination. She alleges Mosaic Life Care [...]
Woman convicted for filing false medical claims
Lajuana Scott was sentenced to one year in jail and five years on probation following her conviction of three felony counts of embezzlement from a nonprofit or charitable organization. The [...]
Cambria County Plastic Surgeon Pleads Guilty to almost $300K in Medicaid and Insurance Fraud
Josh Shapiro, Attorney General, announced that a Johnstown plastic surgeon pleaded guilty today to two felonies. The surgeon bilked private insurers and the Medicaid program out of almost $300,000 by [...]
Investigation Targets Medicaid Transportation Fraud in the North Country
13 people were arrested this week as part of a federal and state investigation into Medicaid fraud allegedly committed by the owners and operators of medical transportation companies based in [...]
California Workers Comp Division Suspends Three Medical Providers for Fraud
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has recently suspended 3 more medical providers from participating in the state’s system, bringing the total number of providers suspended to 245. Click here [...]
Data breach may have affected over 500,000 patients
LifeBridge Health in Baltimore notified more than 500K patients last week. They were informed that their personal information may have been compromised during a security breach in 2016 (around September). [...]
United States Reaches $125,000 Civil Settlement
The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced today that the US, Foot Healers, and its subsidiaries (Foot Healers) reached a civil settlement that will resolve the [...]
Ellington Psychiatrist To Pay Over $800,000 In False Claims Act Allegations Settlement
US Attorney John H. Durham and CT Attorney General George Jepsen announced that Ellington BEhavioral Health (“EBH”) has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments [...]
Regulatory Requirements Drive Dissatisfaction With EHRs
Regulatory requirements are likely to be an important aspect of physician dissatisfaction with electronic health records (EHRs) that is driving burnout, according to an Ideas and Opinions piece published online [...]