Drug Rehab Industry Reacts to Second Degree Murder Charges And Dependent Adult Abuse Charges Filed Against Murietta Drug Rehab Center and Four of Its Employees

A jolt has been sent through California's large drug and alcohol rehabilitation industry —an industry with more than 1,500 facilities ac...

Texan Physician Pleads Guilty To Illegally Prescribing Pain Medication Norco After Search Warrant and Undercover Agent Visit.

The DEA and State Medical Boards are continuing to send in undercover agents to physicians to determine whether they are conducting physical...

Owner of Portable Diagnostic Provider Convicted of Health Care Fraud Where X-Ray, MRI and Ultrasound Interpretations Not Performed By Physicians. Finding That Two Patients' Deaths Caused By X-Rays Not Being Reviewed By Radiologist

One of the issues with diagnostic providers is that with electronic reports there are times when radiologists become concerned that the IDTF...

Doctor Charged With Accepting Cash From Sales Representatives For Referrals To Lab Companies for Blood and DNA Testing

A New Jersey doctor with offices in Toms River, New Jersey, was indicted for accepting approximately $25,000 in cash bribes over a one year ...

San Diego Physician Convicted of Eight Counts of Tax Evasion at Trial In Using A Trust to Not Pay Taxes

On January 28, 2016, a federal jury in San Diego convicted Dr. William Bailey, a  physician of osteopathic medicine, on eight counts of tax ...

Florida Health Care Clinic "Consultant" and Biller Pleads Guilty in Marketing Partial Hospitalization Program And Directing Payments to Patient Brokers in Exchange for Patient Referrals

In the past, aggressive health care entities would seek to avoid the limits of federal and state anti-kickback statutes and federal STARK la...

Former Owner and Operator of California Durbable Medical Equipment Supply Company Sentenced in Medicare Fraud Case

The power wheelchair Medicare fraud cases have still not run their course. The latest one involves the former owner and operator (husband an...

Boston Dentist to Pay $650,000 in Civil Settlement for Improper Medicaid Billing

A Boston dentist has agreed to pay $650,000 to the state’s Medicaid program (MassHealth) to resolve allegations of improperly billing for de...

Check Out OIG’s Newly Updated List of Corporate Integrity Agreements to Understand Recent Compliance Issues

In keeping up on the latest compliance issues, reporting issues, and the government's view on health care law issues, one of a health ca...

West Virginia Physician Pleads Guilty to Federal Illegal Prescribing and Health Care Fraud

The number of prescribing cases filed in federal courts increases especially in areas that have been hit hard by prescription drug addiction...