Office of EMS Associate Director Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $4M from the Virginia DOH
A Midlothian man pled guilty to mail fraud, federal program theft, and tax evasion in connection with a scheme to misappropriate millions of dollars from the Virginia Department of Health…
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United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Erlinger Health System
The United States has filed a complaint against Murphy Medical Center, Inc. doing business as Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital and Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority doing business as Erlanger Health System…
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Nursing Home COVID-19 Testing Scheme Results in $26.3M False Claims Act Judgments
On July 18, 2024, the US District Court for the District of Maryland entered default judgments for the United States totaling $26,341,951.38 against multiple laboratory companies and their owner for…
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Med-Net Concepts, LLC News & Views Newsletter July 2024
Male Resident Catcalls: Compliment or Sexual Harassment? By: David S. Barmak, JD CEO It’s 3:00 am in a nursing home and a young female CNA enters a room shared by…
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South Carolina Pharmacist Sentenced for Unlawfully Compounding Radioactive Drugs
Richard A. Sheriff, 73, of Easley, has pleaded guilty to adulteration of a drug and been sentenced to two years of probation. Sheriff also forfeited $166,000 in revenues. Evidence obtained…
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Michigan Doctor Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Causing Patient’s Drug Overdose Death
Dr. Bernard Shelton, 67, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after being convicted at trial of a patient’s overdose death that resulted from his unlawful prescribing. He was…
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Foreign National Charged for Selling Counterfeit Cancer Drugs
A federal grand jury in Houston returned an indictment charging an Indian national with selling and shipping tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of counterfeit oncology pharmaceuticals into the United…
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Substance Use Disorder Treatment Clinics Settle Overbilling Allegations for $850K
The United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia have reached an $863,934 civil settlement with certain substance use disorder treatment clinics serving patients from Virginia to resolve allegations that these…
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United States Obtains $26M in False Claims Act Judgments Against Laboratory Companies and Their Owner
On July 18, the US District Court for the District of Maryland entered default judgments for the United States totaling $26,341,951.38 against Patrick Britton-Harr and multiple laboratory companies owned by…
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North Korean Hacker Charged in US Healthcare Ransomware Attacks
A grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas, returned an indictment on Wednesday charging North Korean national Rim Jong Hyok for his involvement in a conspiracy to hack and extort US…
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