A Fort Worth, Texas-based physician’s assistant has been charged with 11 counts of healthcare fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, according to a July 19 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of…
Days after U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks ruled that Florida must put a stop to housing children with complex medical needs in nursing homes, the state has launched an appeal, WLRN reported July 19.
A nursing home owner was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the homicide of a patient.
Two physicians and a medical practice agreed to pay a total of $545,610 to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving kickbacks for labaratory referrals, the U.S. Department of Justice said July 20.
The Tennessee Supreme Court on July 20 made two rulings saying vicarious liability claims against hospitals can proceed when statute of limitations barred claims against agents.
The FBI arrested a California nurse practitioner suspected of abusing more than a dozen boys and men since 1986, The Sacramento Bee reported July 19.
Johanah Napoleon, the former president and owner of the Palm Beach School of Nursing in Florida, must serve 21 months in prison and must also pay $3.5 million as part of her sentencing for the role she played in a fraudulent nursing degree scheme, the …
A Mount Sinai EMT was stabbed inside an ambulance July 19 while taking a patient to Mount Sinai West, CBS News reported.
Kirksville, Mo.-based Northeast Regional Medical Center is suing the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services after the department stripped the hospital of its level three trauma center designation, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported July 19.
A California jury has determined that pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson must pay $18.8 million to a patient who blamed the company’s talcum baby powder for causing mesothelioma, the Los Angeles Times reported July 18.
