Investigation
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Regulatory
16 doctors, clinic owners sentenced in $250M opioid fraud scheme
By Dave Muoio / Mar 11, 2022 Sixteen people, including 12 doctors, will face prison time and hefty fines for their roles…
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Regulatory
Federal Investigation Into Spine Surgeries Uses Mob Laws to Target Health Care Fraud
By Fred Schulte / February 8, 2022 A Texas consulting company that arranges spine surgery and other medical care for people…
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Regulatory
Whistleblower suit accuses UPMC, lead surgeon of fraudulent billing tied to ‘concurrent surgeries’
by Dave Muoio | September 8, 2021 The U.S. has filed a whistleblower suit against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, its physician…
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Regulatory
OxyContin maker to plead to 3 criminal charges
October 21, 2020 / Associated Press Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say…
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Regulatory
Is foreign DNA ending up inside of spinal patients?
Author: Brian Dugger / July 9, 2019 Mark VanWinkle is no stranger to back surgeries. He has had nine of them.…
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Hospitals
MiMedx Announces Preliminary Investigation Findings
MARIETTA, Ga., Dec. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — MiMedx Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDXG), the leading regenerative medicine company utilizing human amniotic tissue and patent-protected…
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Top Stories
Nearly 50 Docs Accused in Spanish Kickback Scandal
By Brian Buntz Spain is being rocked by one of the biggest medical crises in decades according to the newspaper El País.…
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Financial
Five charged in $600 million California health care fraud scheme
By Dan Whitcomb The former chief financial officer of a California hospital and four other people have been charged in…
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Top Stories
Concurrent surgeries cause conflict at MGH: 10 things to know
By Emily Rappleye The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team recently reported on an ongoing controversy at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital — one…
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Hospitals
FDA: IDE review times reduced by nearly a year
By Fink Densford The FDA released a report detailing improvements in clearing medical devices, stating it reduced investigational device exemption…
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Financial
$60 Billion That Medicare Wasted
That’s not unusual for federal investigators dealing with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the section of the Department…
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Extremities
Anika Therapeutics Files Investigational Device Exemption to Initiate Phase III Study to Expand Indication of MONOVISC® to Treat Pain Caused by Osteoarthritis of the Hip
BEDFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Anika Therapeutics, Inc., (NASDAQ: ANIK), a leader in products for tissue protection, healing, and repair based on hyaluronic…
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Hospitals
US probes medical devices for possible cyber flaws
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating about two dozen cases of suspected cybersecurity flaws in medical devices and…
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Hospitals
U.S. Inspector General Issues Fraud Alert on Doctor-Owned Distributors
The U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a warning about the risk of fraud when doctors own medical…
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Spine
U.S. Senate panel probes Medtronic
A U.S. Senate committee has launched an investigation into reports that doctors with financial ties to the medical device company…
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