Repeat Offender Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison for Money Laundering of Medicare Fraud Proceeds
A defendant, who was previously convicted of money laundering, was sentenced to a total of 90 months in federal prison for his recent money laundering…
Baltimore Nursing Assistant Sentenced for Shove That Led to 75-Year-Old Patient’s Death
A healthcare employee was sentenced to seven years behind bars following the death of a 75-year-old patient in Northeast Baltimore.
New Hampshire Home Health Aide Convicted of Theft by Deception
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that Elis Urena De Cruz, age 42, of Manchester, New Hampshire, has been convicted and sentenced for theft of…
Medical Practice Pays More Than $850K to Resolve Claims of Inappropriate Billing
A former medical practice located in Frederick, Maryland, has paid the United States $850,949 to settle allegations that it submitted inappropriate claims to the United…
EEOC and HonorHealth Resolve Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, doing business as HonorHealth, which provides medical care at multiple hospitals and medical facilities in the Phoenix area, and the US Equal…
Jury Awards $2.7M in Punitive Damages in Pennsylvania Nursing Home Negligence Case
A Lackawanna County jury awarded $2.7 million in punitive damages to the estate of a woman who broke her hip in a 2018 fall at…
About 1 in 5 Nursing Facilities Would Currently Meet Proposed Staff Requirements
Eighty-one percent of nursing facilities would need to hire additional staff to comply with new nursing staff requirements that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
NY Nurse Practitioner Pleads Guilty to Forging COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards
Julie DeVuono, 51, of Amityville and her corporation Kids-On-Call Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, PC, doing business as Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare, pleaded guilty to forging COVID-19…
Personal Information of Thousands of Imaging Vendor Patients Potentially Compromised
The imaging vendor Sanford Health uses for its mobile heart screen trucks, DMS Health Technologies, experienced a data security incident between March 27 and April…
NY AG Secures More Than $3M from Healthcare Company for Kickback Scheme
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a more than $3.3 million settlement with Dr. Klaus Peter Rentrop and his company, Gramercy Cardiac Diagnostic Group…