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Chester Wojcik, 49, a vendor for several Veterans Affairs medical facilities pleaded guilty to a scheme to profit by billing for, but failing to perform, critical medical gas inspections at…

On August 10, 2020, Sheriff’s investigators arrested Heather Denise Banks for identity theft of a Registered Nurse. When Banks was arrested, she confirmed that she was posing as a Registered…

A licensed practical nurse at a Smithfield nursing home is charged with stealing a patient’s identity and then racking up loans and credit card charges in the elderly man’s name,…

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Hospice and Palliative Care (“MJHS Hospice”), a New York nonprofit hospice provider, has agreed to pay the United States $4,850,000 to resolve civil allegations that it…

Carl Mancini, 43, of Wolcott, was sentenced to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for tampering with and stealing infusion narcotics while he was employed as a pharmacist for a Connecticut company.

The United States has filed a False Claims Act complaint against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and Teva Neuroscience Inc. (Teva), alleging that they illegally paid the Medicare co-pays

Paulette G Toller, a former pharmacy technician working in Danville, was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison for illegal distribution of a controlled substance.

A Missouri surgeon and Kansas distributor have been charged and agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to pay and receive kickbacks aimed at inducing the use of spinal implants

Jason Gerner, 46, of Shamung, New Jersey, was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release for his role in multiple healthcare fraud schemes as a co-founder of the drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility Liberation Way, which had locations in Yardley, Bala Cynwyd and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

A Texas ambulance company has sued the federal government after its Medicare payments were suspended due to an allegation of fraud.