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Tucson, Arizona – On August 14, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Márquez sentenced Margaret Gastelum to 30 months in prison for defrauding a 92-year-old homebound-victim. The court also ordered…

A Greensboro-based medical transport company was sentenced in federal court for healthcare fraud. Gate City Transportation, Inc. was ordered to pay a $100 fine, a $400 special assessment, and restitution…

Albany, New York — Waqas Nauman, age 37, of Queensbury, New York, pled guilty to defrauding Medicaid. Nauman admitted to fraudulent Medicaid billing practices connected to two medical transportation companies…

A former state Medicaid audit administrator who bilked the program and his 85-year-old father of nearly $300,000 got 16 months in federal prison for it Thursday.

Samuel L. Ford, 40, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison and 36 months of supervised release, for his role in submitting fraudulent claims for urine drug testing to…

A Dayton woman is scheduled to appear for a final pretrial hearing on charges of abusing a 90-year-old woman in her care, according to court documents.

The daughter of a north suburban nursing home resident has filed a lawsuit against the facility, alleging that two staff members taunted and degraded her mother, all the while recording…

Federal officials pulled veterans from a Van Nuys assisted living home after finding that the facility had reported a social worker visiting a veteran who had been dead for four…

Two nursing assistants who worked at the Macclenny Nursing and Rehab Center have been arrested after they were accused of abusing an elderly patient, according to an arrest report from…

Beaver Medical Group L.P. (Beaver) and one of its physicians, Dr. Sherif Khalil, have agreed to pay a total of $5,039,180 to resolve allegations that they reported invalid diagnoses to…