Tag Archives: $1.2B

Northwell says COVID-19 has inflicted $1.2B hit to date

Dive Brief: Northwell Health, one of the largest regional hospital systems in the eastern United States, posted an operating revenue increase of 4.1% for the first half of the year, according to its recently released financial filing, but net patient services revenue was down nearly 9% compared to the first half of 2019. Meanwhile, year-over-year operating… Read More »

Feds break up $1.2B Medicare orthopedic brace scam

Federal authorities said Tuesday they’ve broken up a $ 1.2 billion Medicare scam that peddled unneeded orthopedic braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors via foreign call centers. The Justice Department announced charges against 24 people across the U.S., including doctors accused of writing bogus prescriptions for unneeded back, shoulder, wrist and knee braces. Others… Read More »