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SOURCE: www.justice.gov The Justice Department today announced it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York against Erie County, N.Y., alleging that the county discriminated against an employee with a disability.  The department [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ag.ny.gov Aide Face Three Years Behind Bars After Felony Guilty Plea Schneiderman: Thefts From Of Our Taxpayer-Funded Medicaid Program Are Intolerable Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the guilty plea of personal care aide Toya Croley for knowingly submitting [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ag.ny.gov Will Be Sentenced To 3 ½ To 7 Years In Prison One-Time International Fugitive Arthur Bogoraz Pleads Guilty To Felony Charges  Schneiderman: Mr. Bogoraz’s Conviction And Jail Sentence Make Very Clear That This Office Will Capture And Hold [...] Read More

Bills Claimed Higher Level of Service Than Was Documented Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc. will pay $14.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare and other federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced today.  Sound Physicians is a Tacoma, [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.justice.gov On July 3, 2013, a jury found Vernon Harrison, of Montgomery, Ala., guilty of one count of conspiring to file false claims, eight counts of mail fraud, eight counts of aggravated identity theft and six counts of embezzlement [...] Read More

Pre-treatment scans of brain activity predicted whether depressed patients would best achieve remission with an antidepressant medication or psychotherapy, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. “Our goal is to develop reliable biomarkers that match an individual [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.nimh.nih.gov People with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression can lose weight and keep it off through a modified lifestyle intervention program, a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded study reported online today in The New [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ag.ny.gov Defendants Paid Hundreds Of Patients Not To Fill HIV Prescriptions While Also Prescribing Them Pain Killers; Number One Prescribing Physician Assistant Of Class II Opiates In New York State Busted Schneiderman: Abuse Of Medicaid Is Outrageous And We [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov The opportunity to live in a home of one’s choosing has tremendous impact on health and quality of life.  On June 22, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the importance of this choice for people with disabilities when [...] Read More

SOURCE: va.gov In observance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) awareness month, the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD invites the public to participate in its “Take the Step” campaign. “Every day of the year, we should focus on [...] Read More