The Florida Board of Medicine disciplined five Orlando area doctors this month for making serious medical errors. The doctors’ mistakes included operating on the wrong disc in a patient’s back, operating on the wrong testicle of a patient and implanting the wrong kind of lens during a cataract procedure. The doctors were order […]

Health care giant Johnson & Johnson has spent a reported $68.7 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits filed by women who suffered personal injury after using the company’s Ortho Evra birth-control patch. Twenty wrongful deaths are blamed on the birth-control patch which is alleged to cause medical problems involving deep-vein thrombosis, blood clots and […]

Federal prosecutors have released details about a Tampa-based health care company that defrauded Florida health agencies out of more than $20 million. A WellCare analyst pled guilty to defrauding Florida’s Medicaid program by falsifying documents to inflate bills for behavioral health care services. Authorities say he did not act alone, but involved other […]