January 27, 2020 06:28 PM JESSICA KIM COHEN Practice Fusion, a vendor of electronic health records software, will pay $145 million to resolve criminal and civil investigations, including a probe into a scheme to increase opioid prescriptions, the Justice Department said Monday. The DOJ said the case marks the first criminal action taken against an […]
Month: January 2020
Dignity Health loses out-of-network billing lawsuit
January 10, 2020 03:37 PM UPDATED AN HOUR AGO HARRIS MEYER A California appellate court has rejected Dignity Health’s claim that L.A. Care Health Plan, a large Medicaid plan, owes it tens of millions of dollars in out-of-network bills for inpatient care following stabilization of medical emergencies. The Second District Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld a lower […]
Feds amassed $2.6 billion from 2019 healthcare fraud cases
January 09, 2020 SHELBY LIVINGSTON The U.S. Justice Department recovered more than $2.6 billion in 2019 from lawsuits involving healthcare fraud and false claims, federal data released Thursday show. The department’s recoveries from healthcare fraud cases have inched higher in recent years from roughly $2.5 billion in 2018 and $2.1 billion in 2017. The […]