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A Houston physician and his facilities will pay $1.8 million to settle allegations of submitting fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims and violating Stark law.
Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD, Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD, and Nahel Elias, MD, surgeons at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically edited pig kidney into a living patient — the first procedure of its kind.
Many physicians and organizations are fighting to get noncompete agreements — which prohibit them from seeing patients for one to two years within a geographic region if they are fired or quit their job — banned or restricted.
Somos Community Care, a physician network in Kingsbridge, N.Y., received $29 million from state funds reserved for distressed hospitals and nursing homes, according to a report released March 18 by think tank Empire Center for Public Policy.
A podiatrist in Memphis, Tenn., has been convicted for a scheme to defraud Medicare and TennCare out of nearly $4 million in foot bath medication reimbursements.