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In a case that may lead to tougher peer review, Redding Medical Center in California and its parent, Tenet Healthcare Corp., agreed to pay $54 million to resolve allegations that [...]

* Ernest Sleeth, who pleaded guilty in December 2002 to charges of conspiracy to defraud Medicare and Medicaid, was sentenced on July 25 to 30 months in prison and two [...]

* Arkansas legislators are concerned about the state continuing to make Medicaid payments to a provider who is facing a felony Medicaid-fraud charge, says The Associated Press. The Legislative Joint [...]

* Abbott Laboratories pleaded guilty on July 23 to a criminal charge and accepted a fine of over $600 million to resolve allegations that it schemed to defraud Medicare and [...]

* The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida has recovered $16.8 million in a whistle-blower lawsuit against Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) on behalf of Medicare and the [...]

* Dey, a subsidiary of German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA, will pay $18.5 million to settle allegations that it falsely reported pricing information to the Texas Medicaid program, says the [...]

* A West Virginia psychiatrist is accused of conspiring to violate the False Claims Act in a Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the [...]

* Pharmaceutical manufacturers Bayer Corp. and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) agreed April 16 to pay more than $344 million in the nation's largest-ever Medicaid fraud settlements, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office [...]

* An Indiana medical supply owner was indicted on April 3 for allegedly submitting over $90,000 worth of fraudulent billings to Indiana Medicaid, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for [...]

A former health care entrepreneur has been handed a seven-year federal prison sentence for a massive Medicare Part B fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District [...]

* A federal judge recently ruled that a group of Louisiana physicians accused of overbilling Medicare and Medicaid can remove all patient identifying information from billing and medical records relevant [...]

Former health care executive David Von Vandergriff was sentenced to 15 months in prison Sept. 13 for allegedly scamming Medicare and Medicaid out of $200,000, The Sun News re-ports. Vandergriff, [...]

Physician Rajitha Goli, who earlier this month tried to withdraw a guilty plea to defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and other insurance companies of about $1 million, was ordered by U.S. District [...]

* A federal judge has sentenced Michael Flemons to 10 years and three months in prison and ordered him to pay $2.7 million in restitution to the Texas Medicaid program [...]

In a strange case, the U.S. Department of Justice approved a substantial false claims settlement that doesn't contain a penny for the federal government or the whistleblower -- even though [...]

Paragould, Ark.-based Affordable Home Health Care, Inc., a provider of durable medical supplies to eligible Medicaid beneficiaries, has agreed to settle with Arkansas for allegedly billing the state improperly, Attorney [...]

Two Michigan-based physical therapy centers and their owners are charged with 66 felony counts of Medicare and Medicaid fraud, according to Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm. The therapists, Babubhai Rathod [...]

Robbin Nicoloff, a licensed professional counselor in Texas' Medicaid program, faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal health care fraud and money laundering charges, [...]