Category: ASC News

 A Tennessee pain clinic owner was convicted of billing federal healthcare programs approximately $35 million for unnecessary medical injections.

Linh Nguyen, MD, a physician in Peoria, Ariz., was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for healthcare fraud.

A Royal Oak, Mich., physician was charged or his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to sell prescription cancer drugs. 

Female physicians earn an average of $309,000 in 2024, falling short of the $400,000 earned by male physicians, according to Medscape’s “A Gender Gap That Defies Explanation: Medscape Female Physician Compensation Report 2024,” published Oct. 25. 

A lawsuit against a Bon Secours Surgery Center in Suffolk, Va., ended in a settlement on Oct. 24, according to an Oct. 24 report from WAVY Norfolk.

Escondido, Calif.-based Veni-Express, a mobile phlebotomy lab, and its owners have agreed to pay at least $135,000 to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims for mobile phlebotomy services and related travel mileage.

A physician in Tipton, Iowa, was found liable for a LeClaire, Iowa, man’s death after being sued by the man’s daughter, CBS2 Iowa reported Oct. 23.

A Dallas pharmacy owner was sentenced to prison for billing insurance companies for headache sprays, pain creams and scar creams that were never given to patients.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based medical group General Physician, PC, filed a notice of data breach with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to an Oct. 23 report published by JDSupra. 

At least  one injury has been reported after a vehicle collided into a Norfolk, Neb.-based medical office building, according to an Oct. 23 report from News Channel Nebraska.