Compliance & Legal
Dr. Aria O. Sabit profited by convincing patients to undergo spinal fusion surgeries with instrumentation that he never used.
Between 2012 and 2014, 39 people in Virginia Mason Medical Center were sickened by highly-resistant strains of E.coli bacteria, and 11 of those patients died
Rhode Island Hospital admits staff failed to do proper follow-up on a patient, who ended up with severe brain damage as a result.
Kentucky-based pharmacy services business PharMerica will pay $31.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit that it dispensed oxycodone, fentanyl and other narcotics without valid prescriptions and submitted false claims to Medicare Part D for the drugs, according to the company and U.S. Department of Justice.
The state previously had a malpractice limit of $350,000, but in 2012, the state's Supreme Court ruled the cap on damages for pain and suffering unconstitutional.
Executive instructed office staff to rely on false anesthesia records when preparing claims for reimbursement sent to Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance companies.
Suit alleged the Denver-based healthcare company over-billed for reimbursement of dialysis drugs.
Changes in death rates of people on Medicare were no different than those for people in similar places where no hospital had closed.
ProMedica merged with Maumee, Ohio community hospital of St. Luke's in 2010, before a lower court ruled that it created a monopoly in the region.
Doctors argue in Journal of the American Medical Association study that measures are confusing, and create inefficiency that pushes costs higher.