Health Care Investigations

Texas nursing homes are struggling. Last year Senior Care Centers, the largest nursing facility in the state, filed for bankruptcy.In addition to financial woes, these centers are struggling to keep good employees. A failure to have good staff can lead to problems and...

The government continues to pursue Insys related healthcare fraud investigations. Insys Therapeutics (Insys), a pharmaceutical giant, is known for manufacturing Subsys, a fentanyl-based spray used for management of severe pain suffered by cancer patients. According to...

The government recently accused a professional counselor of taking part in a complex health care fraud scheme. The prosecution accused the counselor of filing false documents to incorporate the counseling business, completing unnecessary tests of patients receiving...

New York State Police recently collaborated with various federal, state and local agencies to conduct an investigation of a transport service accused of defrauding Medicaid. The investigation spanned two years. Upon completion, New York officials arrested thirteen...

Health care fraud disputes were present throughout 2018. These cases included everything from individual physicians, nurses and other health care professionals fighting boards for their professional licenses to multi-million dollar Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS)...

The government built two successful cases against Texas physicians to start the New Year. The Justice Department’s Criminal Division along with the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) Dallas Region recently...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has required pharmacy giant Walgreen's to partake in a Corporate Integrity Agreement. The agreement requires the retail store and pharmacy to agree to broad...

A health care executive known for running nursing and assisted living facilities in Chicago before expanding to Florida will begin trial within the next two weeks. The government has accused the former exec of his role in a scheme that allegedly defrauded Medicare of...

New York State law requires individuals meet certain requirements before they can call themselves a pharmacist. These requirements include the applicant hold a license as well as have good moral character. Additional requirements include:   Education. A candidate...

Medical professionals are not the only ones that can face allegations of health care fraud. A recent case out of Alabama provides an example of a politician that found himself the focus of a federal investigation. What led to the investigation? The investigations...