Compliance & Legal
Sutter Health, long accused of abusing its market power in California, is squaring off against major U.S. employers in a closely watched legal fight over healthcare competition and high prices.
Theranos Inc., which offers cholesterol testing via skin-pricking, has acknowledged deficiencies in its Newark, California laboratory and says it has taken steps to address the issue.
An apparently deadlocked Supreme Court is asking lawyers in a closely watched health law case to provide more information on how women working for religious employers might be able to get insurance coverage for contraception without violating the rights of their bosses. The order also included a request for information about a scenario that might be a possible compromise in the case.
Terri L. Schneider, 57, an audiologist from Lakeland, Florida, has been sentenced to 94 months in prison for her role in a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud and money laundering scheme.
A federal jury in New Orleans has convicted a New Orleans doctor and the owner of a New Orleans home health company for their roles in a seven year medicare fraud scheme that spawned more than $34 million in claims, more than $29 million of which were paid out by Medicare, the Department of Justice announced in a statement.
Soon after doctors at UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center traced deadly infections to tainted medical scopes last year, they pressed the device maker to lend them replacements. But Olympus Corp. refused. Instead, the Tokyo company offered to sell UCLA 35 new scopes for $1.2 million -- a 28 percent increase in price from what it charged the university just months earlier, according to university emails obtained from a public-records request.
The Supreme Court has sided with Liberty Mutual Insurance and against the state of Vermont in a decision that could have implications for insurers nationwide.
Three doctors and seven other people have been charged in connection with an alleged illegal operation that authorities said distributed roughly a million pills and grossed roughly $5.7 million, the U.S. Attorney's office announced Thursday after the indictment was unsealed earlier that day.
Isaac Kojo Anakwah Thompson, a Florida doctor who falsely diagnosed hundreds of patients as having a rare spine condition, has pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud and faces spending a decade in prison.
Fort Myers, Florida.-based 21st Century Oncology, which operates 145 centers across the United States and 36 in Latin America, said it is investigating a breach of its computer network that could affect 2.2 million of its former and current patients. The news comes as the provider on Thursday also agreed to settle a billing fraud case for $34.7 million.