A grand jury in Massachusetts indicted Blooming Staffing Agency owner Catherine Kibe, former employee Osaretin Osazee and the company for allegedly staffing nursing homes with uncertified workers and fraudulently billing facilities for services. The indictments include charges of larceny by false pretenses and identity fraud. The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office alleges that Kibe sent uncertified workers, including Osazee, to work as certified nursing assistants, then billed nursing homes as if they were CNAs.

The Department of Justice has dropped a fraud case against former City University of New York neuroscientist Hoau-Yan Wang, who had been accused of defrauding the NIH of $16 million in grants for Alzheimer's disease research. The decision followed a letter from CUNY to the Office of Research Integrity stating that Wang had not engaged in scientific misconduct, despite evidence of image manipulation in his research articles.

Anwar Ahmed Adow, owner of Liberty Plus, pleaded guilty to wire fraud for filing inflated, fraudulent claims for housing services. Liberty Plus received $1.2 million in Minnesota Medicaid funds for services provided to about 200 people. Adow allegedly told his employees to "bill as much as they could," and did not review billable hours employees reported, according to the charges.

New AI-powered web browsers, including ChatGPT Atlas from OpenAI and Perplexity's Comet, promise an enhanced user experience, but they pose notable privacy risks, such as vulnerability to prompt injection attacks. These attacks can lead to unauthorized data exposure and actions, cybersecurity experts warn. Users are advised to restrict access to sensitive accounts and use strong authentication methods.

A survey by MedCity News and Smarter Technologies found that hospitals and medical practices are facing significant inefficiencies in revenue cycle management, with nearly half of respondents waiting as much as six to eight weeks for payments and 20% spending more than 10% of each bill's value to collect payments. More than 90% of health care leaders are interested in billing solutions that are guided by AI.