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…
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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…
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…
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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…
The founder and owner of Louisa, Ky.-based Addiction Recovery Care was indicted on one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering after allegedly selling the same Employee Retention Credit assets to multiple buyers and obtaining millions of…
Four people have been charged in federal court in Ohio in what authorities described as a $30 million fraud conspiracy involving billing for children’s behavioral health services that were not provided. According to a June 4 Justice Department news release,…
Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare, accusing the insurer of retaining more than $100 million in fraudulent Medicaid payments. The May 29 complaint, filed in a state court, focuses on UnitedHealthcare’s role as a contractor for “Senior Care Options,” a state…