Compliance & Legal

This year alone, prevention and enforcement efforts recovered $3.3 billion from individuals and companies that attempted to defraud federal health programs serving seniors, persons with disabilities or those with low incomes.

The audit, for years 2011 and 2012, covered $48 million in Medicare payments to the hospital for 7,506 claims potentially at risk for billing errors.

Changing the bids could take as long as two years.

Clinics allegedly sought reimbursement for injection treatments, physical therapy treatments and other medical items and services not ordered by doctors.

Shares of Farmingdale, New York-based Enzo Biochem fell as low as 17 percent on Tuesday after a federal appeals court threw out a patent infringement ruling it won against Applera.

Owners are also charged with wire fraud for allegedly filing fraudulent applications for relief relating to the explosion and fire which occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010.

Advocates for the change post messages directed at elected officials calling for the Oct. 1 roll-out day to stay.

In total, 37 people have pleaded guilty to scheme in which bribes were paid to doctors in return for referring patient blood specimens to Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services in New Jersey.

Another delay is unlikely but not unthinkable.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday announced a new model of accountable care organization that asks participating healthcare providers to take on the highest level of risk with the possibility of higher returns than any other CMS program.