Virginia Beach-based provider of ambulance services Medical Transport LLC, agreed to pay $9 million in resolution of allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. It is alleged that they [...]

Saint Agnes Healthcare, owner and operator of St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, has agreed to pay approximately $70,000 in settlement to settle claims that it billed the US government for [...]

Dermatologist and owner of Treasure Coast Dermatology Tim Ioannides, located in Vero Beach and Port St. Lucie, Florida has agreed to pay $2.5 million in a resolution of allegations that he [...]

Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Pembroke Pines Police Department arrested a dentist and their office manager for defrauding the Medicaid program out of more than $50,000. Read the full [...]

Ilya Babiner, a Bucks County dentist, was charged Wednesday with 55 third-degree felony counts. Allegedly, the dentist filed a number of claims to the Medical Assistance Program between 2014 and [...]

Scripps Health in San Diego has agreed to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act (paying $1.5 million), according to the Department of Justice. This resolves the allegations that [...]

CPT 2018 Changes for Orthopaedic Surgery: It’s all about that Spine……almost By Heidi Stout, CPC, COSC, CCS-P   Not much will change for orthopaedic surgery coding in 2018.  Most of [...]

A top Congressional advisory body has voted to recommend that Congress repeal the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and replace it with a simpler quality reporting system that would not [...]

A Charleston dentist who falsely billed West Virginia Medicaid for more than $700,000 was sentenced today to 5 years in federal prison. Skaff, a dentist, admitted that he falsely inflated his billings [...]

On July 21st, 2017, Jahan Imani, M.D., and Intermountain Medical Management, P.C., (IMM), a Utah based pain management specialist and his practice, entered into a $399,895.92 settlement agreement with OIG. [...]