Here are 12 legal cases involving physicians, clinics and healthcare organizations that Becker's has reported on in May:
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates and the Foundation of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary agreed to pay over $5.4 million to resolve false claims act allegations.
- Kenneth Wiseman, DO, and Steven Schmidt, DO, owners of Philadelphia-based Complete Physician Services, agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle false claim violation allegations.
- Jeffrey Sutton, DO, of Niles, Ohio, was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $170,000 for illegally distributing controlled substances and healthcare fraud.
- Derek Lado, DO, and his Grand Rapids, Mich.-based practice Elite Medical Spine & Musculoskeletal Center agreed to pay $135,871 to resolve false claims allegations.
- Former Denton, Texas, physician Stanley Charles Evans was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for drug trafficking violations.
- Pennsylvania physician Douglas Files, DO, agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act.
- Ndudi Aniemeka, MD, owner of Chicago-based Boycin Medical Clinic, and his wife and clinical administrator Obiageli Aniemeka, were ordered to pay more than $3 million for home health agency kickbacks and Medicare fraud.
- Northeast Medical Group and Yale New Haven Health Service Corp. entered into a civil settlement agreement to resolve allegations that they overbilled federal Medicare and Connecticut Medicaid programs.
- Kansas physician Gautam Jayaswal, MD, admitted to his role in a telemedicine fraud scheme.
- Michigan podiatrist Kenneth Mitchell, DPM, was sentenced to seven years in prison for orchestrating a healthcare fraud conspiracy that involved nearly $2 million in false and fraudulent Medicare claims, in addition to identity theft and false records.
- Beverly Hills, Calif.-based plastic surgeon Joel Aronowitz, MD, agreed to pay $23.9 million to settle allegations he submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
- Envision Healthcare, a physician services company, was awarded $91.2 million in its arbitration against UnitedHealthcare for underpayment of essential medical care from 2017 to 2018 while the two had an in-network agreement.