- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Jeff Dale2024-02-08T18:33:00
Multihospital healthcare system Penn State Health (PSH) agreed to pay more than $11.7 million to resolve self-disclosed violations of Medicare rules related to improper billing.
PSH resolved allegations of civil liability over claims submitted to Medicare for annual wellness visit (AWV) services, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced in a press release Wednesday.
The case was handled by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Counsel to the Inspector General (HHS OCIG), which announced the enforcement in a separate release.
2024-06-25T17:17:00Z By Jeff Dale
Houston-based medical center institutions agreed to jointly pay $15 million to settle allegations for improperly billing Medicare for concurrent surgeries in violation of teaching physician and informed consent regulations.
2024-01-17T17:37:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
New Jersey-based Silver Lake Hospital agreed to pay more than $18.6 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice addressing allegations of false claims submitted to Medicare for inpatient cost outlier payments.
2024-01-04T21:28:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Hospital agreed to pay nearly $20 million as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice addressing alleged violations of the False Claims Act for improperly billing federal healthcare programs.
2025-07-02T18:31:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Emerging enforcement priorities of the U.S. Department of Justice’s health care fraud division align with the Trump administration’s emphasis on prosecuting transnational criminal organizations and ending opioid trafficking.
2025-07-01T23:26:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has yet to keep up the level of enforcement it had under previous chair Lina Khan. The agency, however, returned to antitrust action in the case of fuel stations, just in time for the July 4th holiday.
2025-06-25T16:29:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In May, three commissioners for the Consumer Product Safety Commission were abruptly fired by President Donald Trump and sued for their jobs shortly after. A federal judge has ruled that the commissioners should be reinstated, although it’s unclear whether that ruling may itself be reversed.
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