Stacey Johnson

A scoop is a story so important that other news organizations are forced to follow. Here are some of our biggest. read more >

Wherever there are human beings, there will be waste, fraud and abuse. There is waste in your household budget. In any business of any size, someone is abusing a policy or a credit card. But hardly any human institutions present the opportunity for waste, fraud and abuse on the scale that we’ve seen in Medicare and Medicaid. And the revelations just keep on coming. read more >

If Dr. Stacey M. Johnson of Mountain Home had not died earlier this year at 63, he likely would have been charged with overbilling Medicare by $14.7 million, according to a criminal investigator’s affidavit that was recently made public. read more >

Senior Editor Mark Friedman’s scoop last week about a Mountain Home cardiologist, now deceased, and his Medicare fraud was monstrous in several ways. For one thing, it will be hard to beat as a monster generator of Web traffic at ArkansasBusiness.com. But much more importantly, it allowed readers to see the monstrous truth about Medicare fraud: It’s not patients, it’s providers. read more >

In this week's Arkansas Business/THV 11 News "Week in Review," we look back on what could be the largest Medicare fraud in Arkansas history, Wal-Mart's capital expenditure plans for the next fiscal year, a hospital deal in Hot Springs, new jobs in Forrest City and a pack of Arkansas public company earnings. read more >

If Dr. Stacey M. Johnson of Mountain Home had not died earlier this year at 63, he likely would have been charged with overbilling Medicare by $14.7 million, according to a criminal investigator’s affidavit that was recently made public. read more >