Three people have sued Great Plains Hospital in Nevada, Mo., alleging they were sexually abused as children during inpatient stays at the facility, according to court records obtained by Becker’s. The three plaintiffs — identified by the pseudonyms John Doe…
Legal
Nearly two decades after Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, the law’s future enforcement is in flux, caught between a stalled federal rule, a wave of state-level activity and a new bill introduced in Congress that…
A former central Ohio couple was indicted on 12 felony charges in connection with an alleged $9.3 million Medicaid fraud scheme, according to a July 15 news release from Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson’s office. Here are four things to…
New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 14 other state attorneys general sued the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Linda McMahon on July 10, accusing the agency of trying to unlawfully cut federal funding for school-based…
The South Carolina Department of Public Health issued a citation-by-mail July 6 to Columbia, S.C.-based Recovery Solutions after its facility failed to submit a required plan of correction stemming from an investigation into a patient suicide, according to a July…
Advertisement
Ruthia He, founder and former CEO of Done Global, a San Francisco-based digital mental health company, was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $1 million for orchestrating a scheme that used the company’s telehealth platform to unlawfully distribute…
Federal prosecutors and auditors are targeting Medicaid behavioral health fraud on multiple fronts, with billions in alleged false claims under scrutiny nationally and two states alone facing audit findings of more than $123 million combined in potentially improper payments for…
Sacred Circles of Healing and Wellness, a behavioral health provider in Tuba City, Ariz., was suspended from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System’s Medicaid program, effective June 17, 2026, according to agency documents reviewed by Becker’s. The provider, which…
Daniel Robinson, CEO of Oak Lawn, Ill.-based ODA Solutions, was charged with one count of healthcare fraud and one count of money laundering in connection with what the Justice Department described as a scheme to defraud the Illinois Medicaid program.…
A lawsuit filed on behalf of the man accused of fatally shooting a DCH Health System nurse alleges the Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based system failed to provide emergency psychiatric care before the attack, a claim DCH disputes, saying the man never entered…