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Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Todd Heath, No. 23-1127, ___ U.S. ___ (2025) The False Claims Act of 1863 (FCA) [1] is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies (typically federal contractors) who defraud governmental programs. It is the federal government's primary litigation tool in combating fraud ...
Much of the impetus for this legislation can be traced to the publication of the landmark report, "To Err is Human", [4] by the Institute of Medicine in 1999 (Report). The Report cited studies that found that at least 44,000 people and potentially as many as 98,000 people die in U. S. hospitals each year as a result of preventable medical errors.
Website. www.hhs.gov. The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". [2]
February 23, 2024 at 5:22 AM. HYANNIS — Cardiologist Richard Zelman has resolved his lawsuit against Cape Cod Hospital and its CEO alleging he was fired for blowing the whistle on practices he ...
Penalties for violations of Stark Law include: denial of payment for the DHS provided; refund of monies received by physicians and facilities for amounts collected; payment of civil penalties of up to $15,000 for each service that a person "knows or should know" was provided in violation of the law, and three times the amount of improper payment the entity received from the Medicare program ...
Eight of those violations were considered “condition-level,” which means inspectors determined the hospice was providing inadequate care to patients. A follow-up inspection in December 2013 identified other violations, but found that the hospice had taken appropriate steps to correct the most serious issues. It wasn’t punished.
Bridges said the hospital submitted that plan by the July 5 deadline, and that a follow-up survey of the facility is expected in the coming weeks “to confirm that our action plans are in place ...
The 2014 Veterans Health Administration controversy is a reported pattern of negligence in the treatment of United States military veterans. Critics charged that patients at the VHA hospitals had not met the target of getting an appointment within 14 days. In some hospitals, the staff falsified appointment records to appear to meet the 14-day ...