by Associated Press Published: October 2,2012
Tags: caregiver, doctor, education, health, health care, higher education, nurse, physician, public health, study, university, workforce
NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI — Of Mississippi’s 82 counties, 39 do not have a pediatrician serving the area and 49 have a designated shortage of primary care health care workers. These are just a few facts found among a collection of information on the state’s health care workforce in the newly revamped Northeast Mississippi Area Health Education [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 28,2012
Tags: attorney, bench, Cancer, court, divorce, doctor, health care, husband, indictment, judge, justice, law, lawyer, medical, medicine, murder, oncologist, oncology, physician, wife
GREENWOOD — A Greenwood oncologist and two other men have been indicted in a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors say unsuccessfully targeted a local attorney. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports Dr. Arnold Smith, Derrick Lacy and Cordarious Robinson were served with indictments this week. A Leflore County grand jury issued the indictments in August, but the documents [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 25,2012
Tags: bench, billing, Cancer, chemotherapy, court, decision, doctor, fraud, health, health care, hearing, investigation, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, medical, medicine, needles, office manager, public health, ruling, sentence, sentencing
SUMMIT — A federal judge has rescheduled sentencing hearings for three women convicted in a multimillion-dollar fraud involving watered-down chemotherapy drugs and old needles. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks are scheduled for sentencing Nov. 16 in U.S. District Court in Jackson. Sentencing had been scheduled for Monday. Sachdeva founded the Rose Cancer [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 7,2012
Tags: attorney, bench, countersuit, courts, crime, criminal, doctor, judge, judicial, law, lawsuit, lawyer, murder, murder-for-hire, physician, sue
GREENWOOD — A Mississippi doctor charged with plotting to kill his ex-wife’s divorce lawyer has filed a countersuit to a lawsuit filed by the attorney. Dr. Arnold Smith alleges in his countersuit that Greenwood attorney Lee Abraham secretly schemed with others to cause him “severe mental and emotional distress.” The Greenwood Commonwealth reports the countersuit [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 18,2012
Tags: abortion, baby, bench, birth, clinic, court, doctor, health, health care, inspection, judhe, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, physician, pregnancy, pregnant, public health, state agency, state government, state law
JACKSON — Health officials have inspected Mississippi’s lone abortion clinic, the first step in a process that could lead to its closure if a new state law survives a legal challenge. Following Monday’s inspection, the Mississippi Department of Health has 10 working days to issue findings. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization continues to perform abortions [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 13,2012
Tags: bench, billing agent, Cancer, chemotherapy, court, doctor, fraud, guilty, health, health care, hearing, judge, judicial, judiciary, plea, public health, scam, scheme, trial
SUMMIT — A cancer doctor and a billing agent are expected to plead guilty today to charges related to an alleged scheme to dilute chemotherapy drugs and use old needles on multiple patients. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks were indicted last August on charges including conspiracy and witness tampering related to activities [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 11,2012
Tags: abortion, baby, bench, birth, court, doctor, health, health care, judge, judicial, judiciary, law, medical, medicine, public health, state law
JACKSON — A hearing today will help a federal judge decide whether to keep blocking a Mississippi abortion law or let it go into effect. The state’s only abortion clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, says it could be forced to close if the state is allowed to start enforcing the measure, which would require anyone [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 15,2012
Tags: doctor, health, health care, jail, license, medical, medical license, medicine, murder-for-hire, physicial, prison
GREENWOOD — A doctor charged in a murder-for-hire scheme has renewed his medical license even though he’s in jail. The Greenwood Commonwealth reports Dr. Ralph Arnold Smith Jr.’s medical license was to expire on June 30. It is now extended through June 30, 2013, according to records from the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure. Dr. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 15,2012
Tags: bench, courts, doctor, drugs, guilty, illegal, illegal drugs, illicit drugs, judge, judicial, judiciary, pharmaceuticals, physician, plead, pleaded
NATCHEZ — A Mississippi physician who wrote fake prescriptions that helped defraud Medicare of more than $5 million lost her medical license and has been ordered in Baton Rouge, La., federal court to repay the insurer $1.6 million. Dr. Jo A. Francis, of Natchez, pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit health care [...] [...]
Study finds that reform could bring crushing demand for healthcare Healthcare reform would bring an immediate, crushing demand for care in Mississippi, and it could take the largely rural Magnolia State a decade to produce enough care providers to meet patients’ needs. That is the finding of a recently-released report from Northeast Mississippi Health Education [...] [...]
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