Fairfield Woman Impersonated Health Care Worker, Authorities Say - Fairfield, CT - The woman impersonated a certified health care worker and caused Medicaid to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, authorities said.
University Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Lying on Grant Applications to Develop Scientific Expertise for China Details Written by Imperial Valley News
Washington, DC - An Ohio man and rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China was sentenced to 37 months in prison for making false statements to federal authorities as part of an immunology research fraud scheme. As part of his sentence, Zheng was also ordered to pay more than $3.4 million in restitution to the National Institute of Health (NIH) and approximately $413,000 to The Ohio State University.
Song Guo Zheng, 58, of Hilliard, was arrested Friday, May 22, 2020, after he arrived in Anchorage, Alaska, aboard a charter flight and as he prepared to board another charter flight in order to flee to China. He was carrying three large bags, one small suitcase and a briefcase containing two laptops, three cell phones, several USB drives, several silver bars, expired Chinese passpor
Terminated: Texas Medicaid subcontractor dumped after data breach in ransomware attack from Russia
Most of the nearly 275,000 Americans potentially affected by the break were Texas Medicaid patients.
A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data-privacy breach caused by a ransomware attack from Russia last year exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of low-income residents. Photo shows a digital forensics class demonstration at Richland College, a northeast Dallas community college.
Updated at 1:30 p.m.: to add Accenture’s comment about how a notice about the breach appeared on a website with high traffic.
AUSTIN A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data-privacy breach caused by a ransomware attack from Russia last year exposed the personal information of tens of thousands of low-income residents.
Published: 26 December 2020 26 December 2020
Dallas, Texas - Texas Heart Hospital of the Southwest LLP, a partially physician-owned hospital in Plano, Texas, and its wholly owned subsidiary, THHBP Management Company, LLC (collectively, the “Heart Hospital”) have agreed to pay the United States $48 million to resolve claims that the Heart Hospital violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to the Medicare program that resulted from violations of the Physician Self-Referral Law and the Anti‑Kickback Statute, the Justice Department announced.
The Physician Self‑Referral Law, commonly known as the Stark Law, prohibits a hospital from billing Medicare for certain services referred by physicians with whom the hospital has a financial relationship, unless that relationship satisfies one of the law’s statutory or regulatory exceptions. The Anti‑Kickback Statute prohibits offering or paying remuneration to induce the referral of items or services covered b