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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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). [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]