Insurance Fraud
Geico brought a federal complaint Tuesday to recover more than $1.5 million from entities that claimed to have provided psychological and psychotherapy services to insured individuals who were involved in car collisions.
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Big Pharma Assails $600M Demand by NY on Opioid Crisis
Casting itself as a scapegoat of the opioid epidemic, an drug-distribution trade group brought a federal complaint in protest of New York’s attempt to make Big Pharma pay $600 million toward the cost of treating drug abusers.
Read moreUK Police Arrest Medical Worker on Suspicion of Baby Murders
British police say a health care worker has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and trying to kill another six at a hospital neonatal unit in northwest England.
Read moreAspirin May Prevent Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientists offered promising results Monday in the use of aspirin to prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
Read moreJahi McMath, 18
Jahi McMath, the teen declared brain-dead five years ago in California and the subject of a prolonged legal fight to keep her on a ventilator, died June 22 in New Jersey following bleeding and kidney complications.
Read moreShareholder Class Action
In a federal class action, shareholders say directors are selling Abaxis (medical devices) too cheaply through an unfair process to Zoetis, for $83 a share or $2 billion.
Read moreHospital Faces Suit Over Physician’s Fatal Rampage
A patient who was shot in the leg last year at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital brought a lawsuit Monday over the deadly rampage carried out by a disgruntled former physician.
Read moreUK Reviews Medical Marijuana Ban After Outcry Over Sick Kids
The British government announced Tuesday it was reviewing its ban on cannabis-based medicines but rejected calls to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
Read moreBad Doc Gets 10
A doctor who used his Beverly Hills radiology companies to fraudulently bill insurers for $22 million was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison on 39 felony fraud counts.
Read moreCalifornia Right-to-Die Law Reinstated
A California appellate court temporarily reinstated the state’s End of Life Option Act on Friday, which allows terminally ill patients to receive physician-assisted suicides.
Read moreDoctors and Hospitals Line Up Against Texas Effort to Kill Obamacare
Leading health care and physicians groups and five law professors joined 16 Democratic states Thursday in asking a federal court to throw out Texas’ attempt to kill Obamacare for alleged unconstitutionality after Congress removed the individual mandate tax penalty last year.
Read moreUK Lifts Immigration Cap for Medical Workers Amid Shortages
Britain said Thursday it will lift a cap on the number of visas granted to foreign doctors and nurses to help ease staffing shortfalls in the country’s National Health Service.
Read moreThat Bill Is a Bit Steep
A family and their doctors claim in a federal complaint that Air Trek said it would cost $31,685, in advance, to fly an injured son from Florida to Seattle, then billed them $723,750.
Read moreUSC Gynecologist
The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights division said Monday it will investigate the University of Southern California’s handling of sexual harassment reports against USC gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall; dozens of women complained over more than 25 years.
Read moreMental Health Parity
The Ninth Circuit reversed summary judgment for Catholic Health Initiatives, because an ERISA plan may not pay for medical and surgical patients’ stays at licensed skilled nursing facilities while denying the same benefits to mental health patients for their stays at residential treatment facilities.
Read moreScientists Develop Material to Regenerate Tooth Enamel
Potentially resolving a longstanding issue in dentistry, researchers reported Friday they have developed a new way to grow mineralized materials capable of regenerating hard tissues, including dental enamel and bone.
Read moreWhistleblower Gives Harrowing Look on Health Care in Arizona Prisons
A counselor who worked at an Arizona prison testified Thursday about a prison health care system riddled with inadequate staffing, poor care, and correctional officers that slept on the job.
Read moreDivorced Catholic Doctor Prevails in Challenge to Firing
A Catholic hospital in Germany failed to persuade an EU magistrate Thursday that it was justified in firing a doctor because of his divorce.
Read moreGambians File Suit Against Ex-Leader Over Alleged HIV ‘Cure’
Three survivors of a supposed HIV treatment program run by Gambia’s former leader Yahya Jammeh featuring a supposed “cure” with secret potions have filed a lawsuit claiming they suffered.
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