by admin | May 24, 2000 | Health / Medicine
An America growing older has many people concerned about a lack of medical professionals who are qualified to treat the needs of the elderly. But C.C. Swarens, Executive Vice President of the Missouri State Medical Association, doesn’t share that concern. He...
by admin | Apr 24, 2000 | Health / Medicine
A bill designed to give senior citizens a break on prescription drugs now protects your local pharmacist as well. It would limit what pharmacies participating in the Medicaid program can charge Medicare recipients for prescription drugs. Supporters say it would...
by admin | Apr 20, 2000 | Health / Medicine
A judge has ordered the head of a St. Louis company to repay the Medicare program almost 620-thousand dollars he got from it through fraud. Edward C. Fann of St. Louis County also has to spend a year in prison. Fann pleaded guilty in October. He and a business...
by admin | Apr 13, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Operators of a Joplin nursing home have been indicted on charges of filing false medicare and medicaid claims. The government is suing NHC Helathcare Corporation and a subsidiary which runs the nursing home. The federal lawsuit against the operators says they got more...
by admin | Apr 12, 2000 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine
The former president of a St. Louis ambulance company pleads NOT guilty to 50 charges of medicare fraud and mail fraud. Former Abbot Ambulance President Terrence Doughtery is charged with billing medicare for ambulance trips that people did not need to take. A member...
