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In what could be an addition to the 10 Notorious Healthcare Execs in 2011, ex-hospital leader Abraham Martinez began serving his five years in prison last month for his role in a healthcare fraud Read more...

Shares of Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH) started to bounce back Tuesday, just one day after plunging 36 percent on claims that the Franklin, Tenn.-based hospital chain systematically overbilled Read more...

Don't assume that your facility is immune to an inside job. A Johns Hopkins Hospital employee stole the names, social security numbers, birth dates, and addresses from patients and gave them to Read more...

Former City of Angels hospital exec Rudra Sabaratnam has pleaded guilty to a scam to defraud Medicare and Medicaid. The scam involved Sabaratnam paying kickbacks for homeless people recruited as Read more...

A man operating a health assessment center on Los Angeles's Skid Row has formally denied charges that he took kickbacks from three metro LA hospitals to locate homeless people for needless treatment. Read more...

A federal court has dismissed a whistleblower suit against Iasis Healthcare, alleging that the company allowed doctors to perform unnecessary medical procedures and paid doctors for patient Read more...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island will pay $20 million to avoid prosecution for the conduct of former executives who directed funds to companies run by state officials. As part of the deal, Read more...

Picking up a single 41-bed hospital usually isn't a big deal for a hospital chain the size of Tenet. But in this case, its acquisition of Hardeeville, S.C.-based Coastal Carolina Medical Center is a significant move, as it's Tenet's first acquisition in five years after years of focusing on existing properties. Executives with Tenet say the $35 million acquisition is a significant step for the company, which has been in turnaround mode for four years.

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It's the end of the line for high-profile healthcare exec Richard Scrushy, who was sentenced to almost seven years in prison yesterday for his conviction on federal bribery charges. Scrushy, who now runs a church out of a television studio, continues to deny wrongdoing.

Unlike peers involved in similar scandals at Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, Scrushy actually managed to …

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A former division chair at UT Southwestern Medical Center is suing the academic medical center under the Texas whistleblower act, contending that it booted him from his endowed position after he complained that patients weren't getting proper care at its teaching hospital. In the suit, Dr. Larry Gentilello contends that trauma residents and Parkland Memorial Hospital have been performing surgery without proper supervision on the poor and uninsured patients typically seen at the county …

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