HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed excessive spending on skin substitutes and wound care, claiming costs rose from ...
Kennedy Jr. disclosed that Medicare spending on expensive skin graft wound-care surged from roughly $200 million in 2019 to ...
Medicare’s recent experience with skin substitutes demonstrates why the accountable care movement is important to stopping waste, fraud, and abuse. In this instance, ACOs identified wound care abuses ...
The Trump administration revealed new figures that show a drastic 7,100% spike in Medicare claims for skin substitutes in just six years as the task force led by Vice President JD Vance continues to ...
Health care providers using skin substitutes now face a two-front enforcement campaign. On August 5, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada indicted physician Dr. Stephen Dubin on health ...
Roseland Community Hospital will stop delivering babies on Oct. 31, adding to South Side maternity closures. Its OB clinic will stay open. Los Angeles County Issues Extreme Heat Warning Through Oct. 8 ...
Those claims resulted in Medicare paying $29 million. Court documents say that from July 2021 through December 2025, Ryan Scott Ellsworth, 47, of Highland, Utah; Emily Kelly, 45, of Washington, Utah; ...
Federal prosecutors were authorized to seize more than $2 million from a Pasadena-based wound-care clinic accused of defrauding Medicare for reimbursements for skin graft substitutes and skin grafts ...