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MDEQ names 2 groups Clean Corporate Citizens The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has named Auburn Hills-based Flexible Products Co. and the U.S. Army Garrison-Michigan in Warren as Clean Corporate [...]

Byline: MARTIN VAN DER WERF Evidence suggests that two children's hospitals affiliated with the University of Chicago deliberately overcrowded their clinical units for ill infants in order to get greater [...]

WSU spinoff bought for $185M by California firm Wayne State University's first spinoff, Southfield-based Lumigen Inc., has been bought by Fullerton, Calif.-based medical-device maker Beckman Coulter Inc. for $185 million [...]

Byline: JEFFREY BRAINARD Rush University Medical Center has agreed to pay the federal government nearly $1-million after admitting that it overbilled Medicare for patients in cancer research. The medical center, [...]

Byline: Mark Taylor Last week's $73 million whistle-blower settlement with New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center was one of the largest single hospital cost-reporting fraud cases. But it won't [...]

Byline: Mark Taylor The largest single-hospital Medicaid fraud settlement to date, signed last week between a New York City hospital and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, isn't likely to [...]

Houston A doctor has pleaded guilty to a scheme that resulted in $30 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare. Dr. Callie Hall Herpin admitted at an April 6 hearing to [...]

S.C. PHO signs consent decree * The physician-hospital organization of Oconee Memorial Hospital, Seneca, S.C., signed a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission last week to resolve price-fixing allegations. [...]

N.Y. hospital settles case * Catskill Regional Medical Center, Harris, N.Y., will pay $1.5 million to settle False Claims Act charges that from 1997 to 2000 an administrative services agreement [...]

Byline: Mark Taylor As states face massive budget deficits and slash beneficiaries, Medicaid programs from 49 cash-strapped states and Washington will receive nearly $150 million from the largest Medicaid fraud [...]

One of the major enforcement sagas in managed care came to a head on May 19th, when Todd S. Farha, former chief executive officer (CEO) for WellCare was sentenced to [...]

Byline: Michael Romano The federal government has charged Kentucky's lieutenant governor with civil Medicare and Medicaid fraud, claiming the orthopedic surgeon was attending political events when he should have been [...]

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration has failed to recoup billions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid payments. During the past six years, Florida lost between $2.1 billion to [...]

As long as healthcare providers have billed insurance companies and government health programs, there has been healthcare fraud. The problem grew after the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid in the [...]

Miami Owners of two separate home medical equipment companies were arrested and charged with Medicaid fraud, according to state Attorney General Robert Butterworth and Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle. [...]

On the heels of a $14 million federal settlement with Bayer Corp. for alleged Medicaid fraud, the state of Florida said it plans to pursue settlements with a veritable who's [...]

Several states are gearing up to sue drug manufacturers who they -- and the U.S. Department of Justice -- say have falsely inflated their so-called average wholesale prices in order [...]

Real estate investment trust Ventas, Louisville, Ky., confirmed last week that the company and its primary tenant, Vencor, have reached a $130 million settlement of Medicare and Medicaid fraud charges [...]

More dumping-law training urged. Less than one-fourth of on-call specialists receive training in the government's antidumping law, according to a report released late last month by HHS' inspector general's office. [...]

BAYER CORPORATION has agreed to pay $14 million to settle allegations that it caused doctors and other health care providers to submit fraudulently inflated reimbursement claims under the Medicaid program, [...]

The Justice Department said Jan. 23 that Bayer Corporation has agreed to pay $14 million to the United States and 45 states to settle allegations that it caused health care [...]

NORTH KINGSTOWN - Wayne B.. Grandidge, 53, of 26 Jerry Lane, who owned American Family Home Care Inc. of Providence, a now defunct company which dispatched nurses to care for [...]

Talk about a role reversal. Keystone Peer Review Organization lost an Agency for Health Care Administration Medicaid peer review contract in February after unsuccessful bidder Healthcare Excel filed a protest. [...]

Filing Medicaid fraud lawsuits may not be as lucrative as filing Medicare fraud lawsuits, several Florida whistleblowers recently found out. A Florida hospital owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp. paid $3.6 [...]

THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT HAS DECLARED that whistleblower's suits brought under the False Claims Act are unconstitutional when the federal government declines to intervene. The [...]

Sydney Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is about to gain some empathy for one of his former patients in Rikers Island prison. The Manhattan psychologist will spend 2 month's worth of weekends in [...]

Walgreen Co. has agreed to pay $7.6 million to resolve government allegations that the chain submitted fraudulent prescription claims to Medicaid and two other government health programs. The government claimed [...]