National Spine and Pain Centers and Physical Medicine Associates will pay the federal government $3.3 million to settle allegations that they illegally billed Medicare and other federal healthcare providers, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Category: Healthcare Fraud
Study at Johns Hopkins finds over half of those diagnosed with schizophrenia really only suffer anxiety
According to a major study by Mental health researchers, at least half of people diagnosed with schizophrenia at a Baltimore clinic had been misdiagnosed and were suffering only from anxiety. A misdiagnosis like this has significant implications for a person who could simply undergo the correct treatment for anxiety. Experts from the...
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Electronic Health Records Show Concerning Errors
Researchers at MedStar Health in Washington D.C. have documented new patterns of errors relating to errors in electronic health records (EHR). Kaiser Health News also gathered information from various sources which confirmed many significant problems with electronic health systems. EHR has been found to lead to the risk of misinformation, data errors,...
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Jeff Newman Law ANNOUNCES $2.1 MILLION SETTLEMENT IN WHISTLEBLOWER FRAUD CASE AGAINST CAREWELL URGENT CARE CENTERS FOR UPCODING PATIENT VISITS
False Claims Act lawsuit reveals upcoding of urgent care visits by CareWell in Massachusetts and Rhode Island at the expense of Medicare and Medicaid
BOSTON, MA. ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** CareWell Urgent Care Centers, an urgent care company which operates seventeen (17) urgent care centers in Massachusetts and one (1)...
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Owner of a Durable Medical Equipment Business Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Fraud After Being Charged During Nationwide Crackdown on Healthcare Fraud
Waveney Blackman, the owner of durable medical equipment company WaveCare Health services, has been charged with one act of healthcare fraud for filing claims to Medicaid for products that were never purchased through her business. Blackman pleaded guilty to these charges after one month and has been sentenced to 42 months in...
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North Carolina Woman Found Guilty of Health Care Fraud After Submitting Thousands of False Claims to Medicaid
Mental health company owner, Catinia Denise Farrington of Cyprus, Texas, pleaded guilty to health care fraud and tax evasion in September of 2018. As of March 1st, 2019, she has been sentenced to 60 months in prison after profiting $4 million from Medicaid and just under $400,000 from her tax evasion scheme.
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Corporate Whistleblowers in Australia Attempting to Expose Injustice Are More Protected Than Ever Under New Laws
Those looking to report corruption, fraud, tax evasion, and other forms of misconduct in the corporate world can finally get the protection they deserve as new whistleblower laws in Australia clear federal parliament.
Corporate whistleblower laws introduced in late 2017 have managed to pass the lower house in early 2019. These laws put into place...
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Zyprexa Kickback Scheme Results in a $1.42 Billion Fine
In 2009, the company Eli Lilly & Co. plead guilty to illegally marketing an antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa, for unapproved uses on patients, leading to a fine of $1.42 billion. This settlement ended a series of civil lawsuits, as well as a criminal investigation. At the time this large of a settlement was unheard of,...
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Nursing Assistant from Florida Loses License Permanently After The Discovery of a $7 Million Medicare Fraud
Rossana Ramirez, a once certified nursing assistant, was discovered to be helping run a business in West Miami-Dade that is responsible for $7 million in health care fraud. After pleading guilty Ramirez was stripped of her license permanently through an Emergency Suspension Order and is now serving time at a federal detention center with...
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Greenway Health LLC Electronic Health Records company pays $57.25 Million to settle False Claims Act case
Greenway Health LLC (Greenway), a Tampa, Florida-based developer of electronic health records (EHR) software, will pay $57.25 million to resolve allegations in a complaint filed by the United States under the False Claims Act alleging that Greenway caused its users to submit false claims to the government by misrepresenting the capabilities of...
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