A nurse in Kentucky was knocked unconscious during an assault at a medical facility. (Nurse.org)
Houston podiatrist Douglas Hansen, DPM, has been accused of secretly recording employees in the bathroom of his medical office. (FOX 26)
Aetna will pay $118 million to resolve allegations that it submitted inaccurate and untruthful diagnosis codes for its Medicare Advantage plan enrollees in order to increase its payments, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
New York family physician Roya Jafari-Hassad, MD, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for operating an oxycodone pill mill out of her office, federal prosecutors said.
A Florida nurse was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a patient who was confined to her hospital bed. (FOX 13)
And a nurse in New Mexico was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting an underage patient. (KFOX14)
New York physician Mark Hoffman, MD, was arrested after allegedly sexually abusing a 48-year-old woman during an oncology visit last year. (News 12)
A former ExThera Medical executive admitted to hiding the deaths of two cancer patients from the FDA. Both were treated with the company’s blood filter device, the DOJ said.
A nurse in a Denver jail was arrested for allegedly providing a synthetic marijuana-type drug called Spice to an inmate. (KDVR)
Leapfrog Group will have to withdraw safety grades for five Florida hospitals after a federal judge ruled its ranking constitutes an “unfair and deceptive business practice.” The judge found Leapfrog deliberately punished the hospitals for not participating in its voluntary survey by assigning them artificially low scores with no scientific basis. (Becker’s Hospital Review)
The owner of a durable medical equipment company was sentenced to 90 months in prison for his role in a nearly $60 million Medicare fraud case involving kickbacks and submitting claims for medically unnecessary products, DOJ said.
Kansas anesthesiologist Scott Taggart Roethle, MD, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to order medically unnecessary orthotic braces for thousands of patients, according to federal prosecutors.
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