The owner of a Frisco-based hospice company, his wife and 14 others have been indicted in a $60 million Medicare fraud scheme that put financial interests over the needs of patients, according to the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of Texas.

A Passaic County doctor admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he accepted more than $100,000 in bribes in a test-referral scheme.

Salvatore Conte, 52, of Totowa, pleaded guilty before Judge Stanley R. Chesler in U.S. District Court in Newark to four counts of a 10-count indictment.

NEWARK - A Haddonfield woman on Tuesday admitted her role in a fraud that caused losses of almost $1 million, authorities said.
Julie Andresen, 39, took payments of about $161,000 as part of a year-long scheme that exploited the prescription drug benefits plan at her former employer, an unnamed pharmaceutical firm, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey.

KPK mendeteksi adanya kecurangan di program Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN). Terkait dengan itu, Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS) Kesehatan, pun mengadakan rapat dengan Menteri Kesehatan (Menkes) Nila Moeloek.