Med-Tech

A federal jury convicted a New York man this week in an over $600 million health care fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft scheme. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Mathew James, 54, of East Northport, operated a medical billing company that billed for procedures that were either more serious or entirely different than those James’ doctor-clients...

A federal jury convicted a Florida woman Friday for laundering approximately $786,000 in money stolen from Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurers as part of a sprawling health care fraud scheme in Miami. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Jesmina Ramirez, 50, of Miami Gardens, laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud proceeds by cashing checks...

Washington D.C., Dec. 18, 2020 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against California-based biotechnology company Decision Diagnostics Corp. and its CEO, Keith Berman, with making false and misleading claims in numerous press releases that the company had developed a working, break-through technology that could accurately detect Covid-19 through a quick blood test. The SEC temporarily suspended...

Purdue Pharma Pleads Responsible to Three Felonies Over OxyContin Misconduct Purdue Pharma LP pleaded responsible to prison costs over the dealing with of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, capping a take care of federal prosecutors to resolve an investigation into the drugmaker’s function within the U.S. opioid disaster. Throughout a courtroom listening to carried out remotely on Tuesday earlier than U.S....