Compliance & Legal

The former CFO led Shelby to attest to meaningful use requirements for the 2012 reporting period, netting nearly $800,000 for the hospital under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services EHR program.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it was releasing the data to provide greater transparency on what drugs were being prescribed, and by which physicians.

Feds say Medical Center of Central Georgia billed Medicare for short-stay inpatient visits that should have been submitted as outpatient stays.

"You're talking about a healthcare service that's more challenging to regulate. People are going into other people's homes, rather than going into a facility," expert says.

ManorCare pressured skilled nursing facility administrators and rehabilitation therapists to meet unrealistic financial goals that resulted in medically unreasonable and unnecessary services to Medicare and Tricare patients, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Federal Trade Commission says Cardinal violated the FTC Act in monopolizing the sale and distribution of radiopharmaceuticals in 25 markets.

Healthcare Finance has created a timeline of notable healthcare frauds in 2014, using data from Nashville-based Bass, Berry & Sims.

Former Birmingham Health Care Chief Financial Officer Terri McGuire Mollica diverted $11 million from the Birmingham clinic and Central Alabama Comprehensive Health, which was also under the fiscal control of BHC.

A February 2014 state audit critical of the county's tax allocations stated more money has gone to the county's non-trauma hospital than to all 12 non-county trauma hospitals combined.

Map and table shows the state-level incentive totals for meaningful use incentives from January 2011 to February 2015.