Nursing Home Employee Charged with Fentanyl Distribution
On February 7, 2024, in federal court in Central Islip, a complaint was unsealed charging a man (Defendant 1) and a woman (Defendant 2) with…
Hospital System Settles Malicious Insider Cybersecurity Investigation for $4.75 Million
On February 6, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a settlement with a non-profit hospital…
False Claims Act Complaint Filed Targets Mobile Cardiac PET Scan Provider
The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against a resident of Florida and formerly the president, chief financial officer, and…
Physician Pleads Guilty to False Statements, Resulting in $1.4M Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
A physician pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to make false statements that resulted in more than $1.4 million in…
Nursing Home Employee Sentenced for Criminal Abuse of a Vulnerable Adult
A 57-year-old man from Washington DC was sentenced on February 1, 2024, in Superior Court for one count of criminal abuse of a vulnerable adult…
Healthcare Provider Settles ADA Violation Lawsuit, Agrees to Compensation
The Justice Department announced on January 30, 2024, that it filed a complaint and proposed consent decree in the US District Court for the District…
Repeat Offender Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for $234M Medicare Fraud Scheme
A California man was sentenced on January 30, 2024, to 10 years in prison for conspiring to conceal his involvement in operating a laboratory and…
OCR Issues Guidance on Religious Non-Discrimination in Patient Visitation Obligations
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued guidance to hospital and long-term care facility…
Iowa Nurse Sentenced to Federal Prison for Stealing Fentanyl and Other Controlled Substances
A Sioux City, Iowa nurse who stole fentanyl, morphine, hydromorphone, and hydrocodone was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison on January 26, 2024. She…
North Carolina Social Worker Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud Medicaid
A 52-year-old woman pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud North Carolina Medicaid in a scheme that resulted in more than $400,000 in fraudulent billing, the…