Corporate Compliance Articles by Topic: Health Law
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 44, November 4, 2009
On October 30, Daisy Martinez pled guilty in Detroit’s U.S. District Court to one count of...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 44, November 4, 2009
Noel Wayne Jhagroo, owner and operator of Trucare Medical Equipment Services, a Houston-area...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested three Florida residents for allegedly conspiring to...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
Florida’s state Legislature has created a program that will reward whistleblowers up to 25...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
Noncompliance with HIPAA regulations can result in several steep penalties. Misuse of patient...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
Authorities arrested an adult family care home owner for concealing an unregistered family...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 36, September 9, 2009
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. will pay...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 35, September 2, 2009
Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, IA, agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle claims that it had...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 34, August 26, 2009
On August 18, Jose and Arnaldo Rosario pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to defraud...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 34, August 26, 2009
On August 19, Kevin Watson and Jaqueline Jackson pleaded guilty to soliciting and paying kickbacks...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 34, August 26, 2009
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospital advises...
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 35, August 25, 2009
On August 21, CMS issued transmittal R1799CP to inform contractors of new waived tests approved by...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 33, August 19, 2009
Community Health Systems Inc., a Tennessee-based heathcare corporation, allegedly made illegal...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 33, August 19, 2009
Reinaldo Guerra, owner and operator of 11 durable medical equipment (DME) companies, pled guilty to...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 33, August 19, 2009
A federal appeals court revived the kickback portion of the case against Johnson & Johnson...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 33, August 19, 2009
Q: What auditing and documentation is necessary to demonstrate HIPAA compliance?
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 32, August 12, 2009
State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCU) recovered $1.3 billion in court-ordered restitution...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 32, August 12, 2009
A federal judge sentenced Miami physician Keith Russell and physician’s assistant Jorge Luis...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 32, August 12, 2009
One way to strengthen your compliance department is to designate a compliance committee. A...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
Continuing the trend of increased fraud enforcement, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force arrested 32...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
Boston Clinical Laboratories reached a settlement with authorities and agreed to pay $615,000 to...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
Q: A secretary in our pathology department faxed a report to a physician’s office. After...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
By Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media
The secretary of HHS shifted enforcement of the...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
New York state and New York City will pay the federal government $540 million to settle allegations...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
Federal prosecutors allege Simon Levich MD billed Medicare for services he never provided, billed...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 30, July 29, 2009
The Obama administration has made it clear that cracking down on healthcare fraud and abuse is a...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
On July 13, a New Jersey grand jury indicted Khashayar Salartash M.D., his office manager, Farah...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
Endoscopic Technologies Inc., a medical device manufacturer, agreed to pay the United States $1.4...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
Q: I’ve been receiving requests for amendments resulting from records generated prior to...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 28, July 15, 2009
On July 8, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the takedown of an elaborate fraud...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 28, July 15, 2009
On July 9, California authorities arrested 20 individiuals believed to be involved in a Medicaid...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 28, July 15, 2009
Joby George pleaded guilty to one count of healthcare fraud and entered into a civil agreement...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 27, July 8, 2009
The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport (LSUHSC) will pay $706,000 to...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 27, July 8, 2009
Jose Luis Perez, of Golden Beach, FL, and Reinaldo Guerra, of Miami, FL, will face charges of...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 27, July 8, 2009
A report published by the George Washington University Medical Center, Health Insurance Fraud: An...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 25, June 24, 2009
Robert Bourseau, former board member and co-owner of City of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 25, June 24, 2009
Judge Robert G. James sentenced Janice Davis, former owner of Aging Care Home Health Care (ACHHC...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
Earlier this week, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey agreed to pay the...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
Kindred Healthcare, Inc. and its successor PharMerica Healthcare Pharmacy, LLC, agreed to pay $1.3...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
Glenesha Moye and Tabitha Jones, owners and operators of EBC Healthcare, pleaded guilty to charges...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
On June 4, the U.S. Deaprtment of Justice (DOJ) unsealed the grand jury indictment that charges a...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
Ene Etim Hogan pleaded guilty June 5 to three counts of healthcare fraud, according to a Department...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
Christopher Long, of Jefferson City, MO, pleaded guilty June 3 to billing Medicaid for home-health...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
Q: I keep hearing rumors that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will modify HIPAA...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
MedQuest Associates Inc. and three of its companies allegedly submitted false claims to Medicare...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
John Sharp M.D., of Marlington, WV, will appear before U.S. District Judge Irene Keeley to request...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
On May 20, President Barack Obama signed the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (FERA...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced an indictment that alleges Deborah...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
The United States, along with 16 states, is joining two whistleblower cases filed against...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
On May 11, the United States District Court in New Jersey denied Robert Wood Johnson University...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
On May 5, Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans, Inc. agreed to enter a deferred prosecution agreement...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected New York’s Medicaid Fraud...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
A federal grand jury indicted Karen Stone, former business manager of Kentucky-based...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
On April 30, a federal grand jury indicted Jeffrey McElveen and Robert Cleveland M.D. on charges of...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
Florida legislators took a big step towards curbing healthcare abuse this week when the state House...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
A Huston jury convicted Houston area residents, Rhonda Fleming, Bose Ebhamen, and King Arthur, of...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
On April 28 the Senate approved the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, a bill designed to...
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Healthcare Auditing Weekly, Issue 16, April 28, 2009
Office of Inspector General Chief Counsel Lewis Morris stressed to the Senate Finance Committee...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
Former and current personal care attendants at First Thessalonians Community Programs were arrested...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
On April 17, Senator Chuck Grassley issued a public letter to CMS calling for the agency to respond...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 16, April 22, 2009
Quest Diagnostics will pay $302 million to settle civil charges of misleading marketing and...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
On April 7, Chaunsay Beckwith, owner and operator of International Alternative Medicine Inc...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
The owners of Interstate Rehabilitation LLC, a physical therapy company located in Glendale, CA...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
On April 8, U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro sentenced Eduardo Batista Barquin, of Miami, to...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
Bic Chau Stafford MD, of St. Louis, pleaded guilty to federal charges of obstructing a federal...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
The Florida Senate’s Health Regulation Committee approved a plan that would put stricter...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
A Norfolk, VA, grand jury charged Ronald Poulin MD with a 45-count indictment that includes...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Houston’s Methodist Hospital agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle allegations that it...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Carmen Del Cueto, MD, andAlexis Dagnesses each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
On March 20, California Attorney General Jerry Brown joined a whistleblower suit that alleges seven...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
The U.S. attorney's office filed a lawsuit which alleges Miller Medical Group Chtd., a Las Vegas...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
San Mateo county reached a settlement March 12 with the federal government in a whistleblower case...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
The United States has reached a $2.3 million settlement with Victory Memorial, a not-for-profit...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
Cornerstone Hospital, of Huntington, WV, has agreed to pay the United States $690,000 to end an...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
Q: When a physician-owned lithotripsy partnership contracts with a hospital to provide a...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
The United States has gotten involved in a whistleblower case that alleges Community Health Systems...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday sentenced Yosdan Castellanos to 63 months in prison for...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico indicted four individuals with charges of conspiracy to commit...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
Medical identity theft is an ugly reality for healthcare organizations, patients, and payers...
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Healthcare Auditing Weekly, Issue 9, March 10, 2009
A Kansas cardiologist and his practice group will pay $1.3 million to the United States to settle...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
Lowndes (MS) County Circuit Court Judge Lee Howard sentenced Aaron Pulsifer, 39, of Columbus, MS...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
United States District Judge Inge Johnson sentenced Joel Sloan, 44, of McCalla, AL, to 18 months in...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 9, March 4, 2009
U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga sentenced Jimmy A. Soto, of Miami Lakes, FL, to 140 months in...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
On February 19, a federal jury found Eugene Chen, M.D., a Las Vegas anesthesiologist, guilty of...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
Walter Sanders, owner of Waltco Medical Equipment and Supplies, will serve 60 months in prison and...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 7, February 18, 2009
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged six Miami-area healthcare workers with defrauding...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 7, February 18, 2009
Police arrested Sanjay Patel and his wife, Leena Bharat Kumar Patel, in Connecticut on Feburary 13...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 7, February 18, 2009
Ernest Hogan, owner of a Houston-area durable medical equipment (DME) company, Shanet Medical...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
A mental health counselor allegedly continued to bill Medicaid for therapy services provided to...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
On February 4, a federal judge sentenced William King, a consultant for skilled nursing facilities...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
Q: Can a gift exchange between physicians and providers lead to a Stark violation?
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
A federal indictment named two more individuals in an alleged Medicare fraud scheme that recruited...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
Federal authorities recently charged four Chicago-area individuals, including two physicians, in...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
The latest draft of the government’s economic stimulus package protects federal employees who...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
Upcoming changes to Stark Law should put financial arrangement audits at the top of compliance...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
The owners and operators of two Miami-area HIV infusion clinics along with a phlebotomist employed...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
An administrative law judge stripped three former Purdue Frederick executives of their...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Q: We treat many patients who come from a state prison. When these patients come to our facility...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
The Alabama-based hospice organization, SouthernCare Inc., agreed to pay $24.7 million to settle...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
The most common solution to obtain physicians for on-call coverage is to provide a stipend or...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
Seven hospitals in New York have been accused of fraudulently billing the Medicaid program for...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Carlos De Cespedesand Jorge De Cespedes, brothers and...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
Boston Medical Center (BMC) and East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) agreed to pay...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 92, December 31, 2008
HMS Diagnostics Inc., an independent diagnostic testing facility specializing in the treatment of...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 89, December 10, 2008
Ashley Collin Walkes, owner of Medic Management, a clinic in Port Arthur, TX, Medic Management...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 89, December 10, 2008
Jackson Madison General Hospital, in Jackson TN, and Milan General Hospital, in Milan, TN, agreed...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 88, December 3, 2008
On December 1, Fabian Aurignac, a cardiologist in McAllen, TX, was arrested in Austin for allegedly...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 88, December 3, 2008
Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester, CT agreed to pay the federal government $712,000 to...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 88, December 3, 2008
Condell Medical Center, in Libertyville, IL, will pay the federal government and the state of...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 87, November 26, 2008
St. Vincent Health System Inc. will pay $1.9 million to settle allegations the company submitted...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 87, November 26, 2008
On November 24, Carlos Contreras and Ramon Pichardo were sentenced to 37 months and 48 months in...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 86, November 19, 2008
Another Miami HIV infusion clinic owner sentenced for Medicare fraud
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 85, November 12, 2008
DOJ recovered $1 billion in FY 2008
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 85, November 12, 2008
Miami physician and clinic administrator sentenced for roles in Medicare fraud scheme
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 84, November 5, 2008
Louisiana trio indicted for Medicare fraud
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 83, October 29, 2008
Q: The hospital to the south of us has a transfer agreement with a hospital seven miles to our...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 83, October 29, 2008
NJ hospital pays $1.75 million to settle whistleblower claims
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 82, October 22, 2008
Louisiana Hospital pays $3.3 million to resolve Medicare fraud charges
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 80, October 15, 2008
Peoria podiatrist sentenced to year in prison for Medicare fraud
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 80, October 15, 2008
Eight indicted in South Florida AIDS/HIV infusion scheme
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 78, October 8, 2008
McKesson charged with Medicare fraud scheme
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 76, October 1, 2008
NJ Hospital pays $3.85M to settle Medicare fraud charges