Jacklyn Price, the owner of two Detroit health clinics was sentenced to 13 years in prison for her role in an $8.6 million scheme involving fraudulent Medicare claims. Price owned Patient Choice Internal Medicine and Metro Mobile Physicians, two Detroit-based Medicare providers. Reports say Price and several others had a scheme of...

Waveney Blackman, the owner of WaveCare HEalth Services, a company that provided durable medical equipment pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of health care fraud for carrying out a scheme in which she fraudulently obtained more than $9.4 million in...

Healogics, Inc. has agreed to pay $22.51 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing wound care centers to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary and unreasonable hyperbaric oxygen ("HBO") therapy. Healogics manages nearly 700 hospital-based wound care centers across the country.

Ambulance company employeeAharon Aron Krkasharyan, 54, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge George H. Wu of the Central District of California, who also ordered Krkasharyan to pay $484,556 in restitution to Medicare, jointly and severally with his co-conspirators, who await sentencing. On Nov. 27, 2017, Krkasharyan pleaded guilty to one...

Banner Health has agreed to pay the United States over $18 million to settle allegations that 12 of its hospitals in Arizona and Colorado knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who could have been treated on a less costly outpatient basis, the Justice Department announced today. Headquartered in Arizona,...

New Oaklawn Investments, LLC, d/b/a Oaklawn Health and Rehabilitation Center and Elmcroft Senior Living, Inc., a Louisville based skilled nursing facility, agreed to pay $5,191,470 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment to the Medicare Program, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. "Today's settlement is...