Physicians at UMC, as well as the estate of a Lubbock doctor killed in a plane crash last February, have agreed to pay a $3.3 million settlement to the federal and [...]
Gregory D. Toran, 67, of Hazel Crest in the Chicago area has been convicted by U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough for committing Medicaid fraud in estimation of $4.7 million for non-emergency [...]
LOUISVILLE, KY – MD2U Holding Company, including its related companies and individually named owners (“Defendants”), have agreed to pay millions to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that they violated the [...]
Settling a claim that their health care program committed fraud, the University of Missouri has agreed to pay the United States government $2.2 million. The program had been accused of [...]
Recently, the US Department of Justice made an announcement that Paradigm Spine has agreed to resolve false claim accusations levied against it concerning the coflex-F® device. The department has stated [...]
An office manager who worked with a Salinas doctor was arrested and arraigned on 23 different felonies. Maria “Aloha” Eclavea faced 23 felony insurance charges which are related to her [...]
Abusers of the Medicare system can sometimes be intentional or not, but the stories that really get significant attention of the public are the ones that highlight healthcare personnel that [...]
California State Medicaid Fraud Control Unit: 2015 Onsite Review (OEI-09-15-00070) https://go.usa.gov/cpgj5 Why We Did This Study OIG oversees all State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs or Units). As part of this oversight, [...]
Internal ICD-10 Readiness Plan Per our Internal ICD-10 Readiness Plan, all of TCN's coders are ICD-10 ready as of October 1, 2015. To accomplish this goal, TCN has used approximately 24 [...]
In a $750,000 HIPAA Settlement, the University of Washington Medicine (UWM) has agreed to settle charges that it potentially violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security [...]
