January 22, 2024
A federal judge has rejected a neurologist's claims that his former hospital in Delaware defrauded the federal government by transferring stroke patients to Philadelphia-based Jefferson Healthcare System via helicopter, finding the suit didn't provide the billing details necessary to make such transfers a violation of Medicare regulations.
July 18, 2023
A neurologist has accused Philadelphia-based Jefferson Healthcare System Inc. and Beebe Healthcare in Delaware of firing him in retaliation for reporting an alleged scheme where the two entities bilked Medicare and Medicaid by transferring stroke patients from one hospital to the other by air.