Hospital company settles fraud claims
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State and federal investigators said a day treatment center in Ashland for disabled people overcharged the government Medicaid program by exaggerating clients' disabilities to earn bigger payments.
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A hospital attorney says the deal shows both sides saw strengths and flaws in their cases. Tenet Healthcare Corp. announced Thursday that it will pay $31 million to settle more than 100 individual patient
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ST. LOUIS -- The nation&#39;s third-largest operator of kidney-dialysis clinics has agreed to pay the government $350 million to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare.
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The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to settle consumer fraud charges by posting online both negative and positive results from its clinical drug trials, a practice that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said should have been made
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HealthSouth Corp. (HLSH.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) , a health-care company that is trying to emerge from an accounting scandal, said on Thursday it agreed to pay $325 million
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United Healthcare settled complaints about its past claims practices on Thursday, agreeing to pay $12 million in fines to 36 states and the District of Columbia.
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The District has agreed to pay $650,000 to the family of a patient at St. Elizabeths Hospital who gouged out his eyes while under the city's care, officials said yesterday.
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Four of the nationâs biggest makers of artificial joints will pay a total of $310 million in fines to settle accusations that they paid kickbacks to surgeons.
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WebMD Corp. , a leading provider of health information online, said on Tuesday it settled a disputed lease for its Santa Clara, California, operations with a &#36;23 million cash payment.
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Marsh & McLennan Companies agreed to pay $850 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of cheating customers by rigging prices and steering business to insurers.
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A Manhattan jewelry dealer who directed his employees to inflate the price of goods his company auctioned will settle a civil fraud complaint.
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Qwest Communications International Inc. has agreed to pay $250 million to settle financial and disclosure fraud charges, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday.
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Media & professional: A British firm agrees to pay Â£4m to NHS over alleged price-fixing of medicine.
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HealthSouth Corp. HLSH.PK, a  health-care company that is trying to emerge from an accounting  scandal, said on Thursday it agreed to settle for $325 million  federal charges that the company overbilled Medicare.
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A Scottish hospital reveals that it spent Â£42,000 on extra security guards and a special room for one patient.
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Royal Ahold NV, the Dutch retailer that overstated more than $1 billion of profits, reached a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, ending a 20-month investigation into accounting fraud.
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The operator of two computer privacy services agrees to pay up to $1 million to settle charges of using deceptive marketing techniques and selling personal information.