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CHICAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) – A former municipal banker at
Bear, Stearns & Co, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to fraud
involving hospital financing that is part of a wide-ranging
probe of government corruption in Illinois.
P. Nicholas Hurtgen, who had been set to go on trial in
U.S. District Court next month, pleaded guilty to one count of
aiding and abetting a scheme to defraud Illinois’ health
facilities planning board, which was weighing a proposal Read the rest of this entry »
A Nashville judge has ruled the state was wrong to refuse to pay for special foods for two young TennCare patients with a rare genetic disorder.
State officials fought the decision, fearing it could lead to a flood of requests from people who want TennCare to cover food for medical diets.
Chancellor Carol McCoy ruled Wednesday in favor of two Coffee County children.
The children have phenylketonuria, an incurable disease that can cause permanent Read the rest of this entry »
A timeline of the case involving Dr. Jayant Patel, who is facing trial on manslaughter charges in the deaths of three patients in Australia from 2003 to early2005:
April 10, 1950: Jayant Mukundray Patel born in Jamnagar, Gujarat,India.
1976: Patel graduates from the state-run M.P. Shah Medical College at Saurashtra University in Jamnagar,India.
1978: Patel enters surgical residency program in the U.S. at University of Rochester in New Yorkstate. Read the rest of this entry »
The privacy of hundreds of minor patients’ medical records lies in the hands of the Ohio Supreme Court as it deliberates a case over alleged violations of the state’s abortion consent law.
The parents of a 14-year-old girl who had an abortion without their consent allege Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region repeatedly ran afoul of the state statute that requires physicians to obtain written parental permission before performing an abortion on Read the rest of this entry »
A Pittsburgh-area woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting her infant from her womb is going to spend the next 60 days in a state mental facility.
A judge presiding over a competency hearing Monday for Andrea Curry-Demus says he would like status updates periodically on the woman’s condition. Curry-Demus is accused of meeting Kia Johnson at the Allegheny County Jail while each were visiting other inmates and then somehow luring the Read the rest of this entry »
SUSSEX – It will be up to a judge to decide if Kia owes the Gray family of Sussex more than a promise to repair its rotten car if the family agrees to absolve the car company of responsibility for its poor health.
Greedy is not a word Crystal McLaughlin-Gray would use to describe herself, but she cannot accept an offer while her young family is still running to doctors.
Shortly after the Grays bought the car new from Saint John Kia in 2006, they Read the rest of this entry »
Ky. lawyers back on trial in diet drug case
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Opening arguments are under way in Kentucky in the retrial of two former lawyers accused of bilking clients of millions of dollars from a diet drug settlement.
Arguments began Wednesday in federal court in the fraud case against William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. The two men own a minority stake in two-time Horse of the Year Curlin.
Jurors in the previous trial Read the rest of this entry »
COSTA MESA, Calif.—A woman who helped recruit patients to undergo unnecessary surgeries as part of a $154 million medical insurance fraud has pleaded guilty to 22 charges.
Sue Nanda, 40, of Costa Mesa, entered her plea Friday in Orange County Superior Court. She is scheduled to be sentenced April 24 where she faces up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Nanda worked for the now-shuttered Unity Outpatient Surgery Center in Buena Park, Read the rest of this entry »
ANGIER, N.C. â Federal authorities are looking for the alleged mastermind behind the fatal bacteria-tainted syringes that were shipped from a Harnett County plant.
Two men have already pleaded guilty to shipping the syringes from the AM2PAT plant in Angier that killed at least five people and sickened at least 100. The plantâs manager and quality control director were sentenced to four years in prison on Monday, charged with fraud and Read the rest of this entry »
Last March, Suleman filed bankruptcy, claiming nearly $1 million in liabilities — mostly because of a bad house investment, her attorney said. Countrywide Home Loans approved a $492,000 mortgage for Suleman in 2006 for a second home she bought in Whittier for $615,000. In 2008, the bank began foreclosure procedures. The house was sold in August for $369,375.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, Suleman said her daughter did Read the rest of this entry »