The US Department of Justice has indicted Erekle Gugava for allegedly laundering money in a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme involving stolen identities and fraudulent claims across the United States.
Thousands of low-income patients, some desperately ill, are scrambling to find new doctors as they lose access to UCLA Health physicians after an eight-year Medi-Cal contract was not renewed.
Doctors hear all kinds of answers when they start asking questions that patients would rather avoid. People may forget a few details, minimize a habit, or confidently insist they follow every medical recommendation to the letter. Sometimes the lie is ...
Some patients and doctors are calling on the FDA to formally recognize a shortage of the medications, saying the agency's shortage database does not reflect problems they are seeing at pharmacies.