Sleep Physician Sentenced to Prison for Altering Recalled CPAPs
He was sentenced to over a year in prison and ordered to pay restitution for manually removing foam from recalled devices and billing them to Medicaid as new.
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LatestHospital System that ‘Falsely Diagnosed’ Sleep Apnea to Pay $1M Settlement
Cincinnati.com: The US Attorney's Office alleges that Mercy Health made medically unnecessary claims for machines used to treat sleep apnea.
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Medicare Fraud Whistleblower Gets $631,200 from Fresno County Jury
An RT was awarded $131,200 in economic and emotional damages, as well as $500,000 in punitive damages by a jury, but the sleep center where she worked strongly denied wrongdoing, reports The Fresno Bee. In her lawsuit, Casillas...
Read MoreWarning: SMRC Audits on the Rise, Fueled by Analytics
A RAC Monitor article includes four key points for providers to understand aboutSupplemental Medical Review Contractors in the year ahead. Outpatient procedures and ancillary testing often are overlooked by other contractors,...
Read More$20 Million Awarded in Sleep Study Death
According to a CBS 46 news report, a DeKalb County jury awarded a metro Atlanta mother $20 million after her son died during a sleep study at Emory University.
Read MoreMultnomah County Circuit Court Rules Against Kaiser
In the lawsuits, brought by two former doctors at Northwest Permanente, Dr Jeffrey Weisz, the former executive medical director, is named as a defendant, reports The Lund Report. Breaden joined Kaiser as an internist in 2000,...
Read MoreSteep Rise in Sleep Clinics Prescribing Expensive Cures
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that sleep specialists in Australia are concerned patients visiting sleep clinics are being wrongly diagnosed for financial gain.
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Ex-Cal Doctor Gets Probation for Sexually Exploiting Patients
A judge said he did not think the ex-UC Berkeley doctor would re-offend and agreed with the...
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In Mental Health Patients, Is Home Sleep Testing a Setup for Medical Malpractice?
The problem may arise when or how we communicate that PAP therapy equipment, both masks and pressurized air, can trigger claustrophobia or panic attacks under a specific set of circumstances.
Read MoreFamily of California Girl Left Brain Dead After Tonsillectomy Sues Hospital
Jahi McMath’s family is suing the surgeon and hospital who performed a tonsillectomy to cure her sleep apnea, Reuters reports. The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court by McMath’s mother, stepfather and...
Read MoreThe Employment Law Group Law Firm Helps Florida Whistleblower Win Settlement
Whistleblower Donna Nichols will receive 20% of nearly $300,000 repaid to taxpayers in the US government’s settlement of fraud claims against a Florida sleep-disorder clinic. The clinic was accused of pretending to...
Read MoreCorporate Whistleblower Center Launches New Initiative Involving Sleep Clinic Medicare Fraud
Following on the heels of the US settling false claim allegations against a Florida sleep clinic, consumer advocacy group Corporate Whistleblower Center issued a press release urging employees of sleep clinics to contact the...
Read MoreClinic Gets 8-year Timeout for Fraud
The most significant disorder at one sleep center was fraud. It recently brought to light by the Department of Justice, reports the Washington Examiner. A Florida clinic that performed medically unnecessary tests on patients to...
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Answers to the Questionable PSG Billing Report Released by the OIG
Sleep testing is clearly on the OIG’s radar. A recently released report by the agency identified nearly $17 million in questionable billing for PSG services. A lawyer analyzes the OIG’s report and provides recommendations you can implement today.
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HHS Would Increase Rewards for Reporting Fraud to Nearly $10 Million
A proposed rule would increase rewards paid to Medicare beneficiaries and other individuals whose tips about suspected fraud lead to the successful recovery of funds.
Read MoreAmerican Sleep Medicine Pays $15.3M to Settle Medicare Fraud Allegations
The Florida-based sleep testing company allegedly billed Medicare and other federal health care programs illegally.
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OIG Refuses to Grant a Stark Waiver for Physician Dispensing
Office of Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services rejects a request for waiver of the Stark Law to permit sleep specialists to dispense Medicare CPAP to their patients.
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