The Inspector General for Health and Human services reports that one third of Medicaid fraud criminal convictions the Feds obtained last year involved home health aides. Thirty percent of the 2014 cases involved home health aides, while certified nursing aides were culprits in 9% of convictions. Next were medical...

Asem elgawhary, 73 the former principal VP of Bechtel and manager of a joint venture between Bechtel and an Egyption utility, was sentenced to 42 months in prison for taking $5.2 million in kickbacks to manipulate the bidding process for state run power contracts in Egypt. Mr. ΠElgawhary, pleaded guilty to mail fraud, conspiracy...

Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc. is reaching a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that would settle a whistleblower case examining Πthe company's reimbursement practices when doctors order blood tests. The Wall Street Journal had previously reported that some doctors had received $4,000 a week in reimbursements from HDL...

High levels of corruption in government and poor governance has been determined to be a primary cause of antibiotic resistance which threatens millions of people because so many bacteria are now totally antibiotic resistant. These are the findings of the Australian National University (ANU) School of Medicine and its lead researcher Peter...

The FDA says that all GE Healthcare MRIs with superconducting magnets are potentially deadly by requiring a recall of nearly 13,000 of the imaging systems saying there is a reasonable probability that the device "will cause serious adverse health consequences or death."The recall covers 25 different MRIs, including several versions of the...

Cardinal Health Inc. said in a regulatory filing that it has been sued by the government for fraud and violating health care laws for its marking and sale of continence and ostomy products. The complaint in the case was apparently filed against Cardinal Health at Home division last year in the U.S. District Court...

The South Shore Hospital of Weymouth Massachusetts will pay $1.8 million to settle state and federal investigations alleging that it was engaged in an illegal kickback scheme, paying doctors to refer patients to services within the hospital's health care network.The doctors, members of independent physicians groups affiliated with South Shore Hospital, received cash incentives...

Omnicare Inc., a Fortune 500 company that provides pharmaceuticals to geriatric patients in skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes and assisted living facilities, took tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott labs, accordinf to a whistleblower lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice...

Uncle Sam and Nevada have joined in a whistleblower case alleging Πa for-profit hospice submitted millions of dollars in false claims to Medicare and Medicaid. Whistleblower Joanne Cretney-Tsosie, a clinical manager at Creekside Hospice II, filed a federal lawsuit under seal in...