Owner of Arizona Healthcare Equipment Company Sentenced to 36 Months for Defrauding Medicare
On April 9, Frances Jones, 52, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by US District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker. Jones…
San Diego Chiropractor Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Irvine resident Joserodel Zavala Candelario was sentenced in federal court to 36 months in federal custody for his participation in two huge healthcare fraud schemes,…
The GAO Identifies Multiple Ways Agencies Can Improve COVID-19 Response Efforts
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released their 6th report on the federal response to the pandemic in late March 2021. The report identified 28…
TX Home Health Owner Charged with Copying and Pasting Doctor Signatures
A 60-year-old Richmond man, Paul Njoku, is now in custody on charges of making false statements in his scheme to defraud Medicare. The five-count indictment, returned…
CT Home Health Company Pays $28K for Employing “Excluded” Individual
A Connecticut home health company and its owner and CEO have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government in which they will…
NJ AG Announces New Regulatory Actions to Establish Permanent Standards for the Provision of Healthcare Services through Telemedicine
Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced four new rule proposals aimed at establishing permanent standards for practitioners of several licensing boards and committees who provide…
US Suicides Dropped Last Year, Defying Pandemic Expectations
The number of US suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic — the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according…
EEOC Announces New Scheduled Openings of EEOC Data Collections
The opening of the 2019 Employment Information Report (EEO-1) Component 1 Data Collection scheduled for May 8, 2020 was delayed due to the COVID-19 public…
United States Intervenes in False Claims Act Lawsuit against DE Mental Health Services Company
The United States has filed a complaint in partial intervention against Connections Community Support Programs, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District…
Former MA Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Liquid Morphine
A former nurse was sentenced in federal court in Boston for diverting liquid morphine intended for hospice patients at a Lowell nursing home. Michael Langlois,…