
Medicaid Fraud Charges Formally Filed Against Brian Hyatt
The Class A felony counts stem from more than $300,000 in fraudulent claims that Hyatt allegedly submitted in 2022. read more >
The Class A felony counts stem from more than $300,000 in fraudulent claims that Hyatt allegedly submitted in 2022. read more >
Authorities have accused Hyatt of failing to enter patients’ rooms at Northwest Medical Center-Springdale Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit, where he was medical director between 2018 and May 2022. read more >
Dr. Brian Hyatt of Rogers resigned as chair of the Arkansas State Medical Board after “credible allegations” of Medicaid fraud. read more >
A superseding indictment has been filed in the case against Dr. Lonnie Joseph Parker of Texarkana. read more >
The first two lists contained countywide counts that were hard to believe, to put it mildly. read more >
Convicted of conspiring to injure the head of the state medical board and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years, former physician Randeep Mann still maintains his innocence. read more >
Sexual harassment allegations by colleagues have followed a Washington Regional Medical Center cardiologist for years. read more >
The Arkansas State Medical Board is keeping a close eye on the pending federal criminal case of a doctor charged in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving prescription drugs. read more >
Dr. Robin Ann Cox of Rogers pleads guilty in federal court in connection with over-prescribing opioids read more >
A Searcy doctor with millions of dollars of debt and a troubled history with state regulators now confronts his latest nightmare: A lender has accused Dr. Benjamin Carlyle of submitting false financial statements to obtain loans. read more >
With medical marijuana expected to boom into a $100 million-a-year business in Arkansas within a year or two, medical clinics specializing in marijuana certifications are cropping up to handle the rush. read more >
An Arkansas physician who rehabilitated his image, regaining his medical license after going to federal prison on a child pornography charge, is now charged with a felonious relapse — this time accused of overprescribing opioids and other controlled substances. read more >
It was 3:20 a.m. on Oct. 13, 2015, when the Boone County deputy knocked on our door. He had come to tell us of our 24-year-old daughter’s death in Hill County, Texas. Jill’s mother and I got dressed, packed a few things and began the drive to Texas. And thus began a four-year journey into the abyss of the opioid epidemic in Arkansas. read more >
James Hawk, the Harrison doctor whose medical license was suspended three times in four years, decided not to attempt to renew his license when it expired at the end of last month. read more >
When the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced in April 2014 that Dr. Gareth Morgan would lead the Myeloma Institute for Research & Therapy, it was cause for a celebration. The cheers didn’t last long. read more >
The Arkansas State Medical Board suspended a Harrison doctor’s medical license last June, for the third time in four years, after multiple complaints that the doctor overprescribed opioids and had serious mental health issues, an examination of his file reveals. read more >
Walmart’s new strategy to help stop opioid abuse isn’t sitting well with some doctors. read more >
The audit of the Myeloma Institute should be able to determine if there’s any money unaccounted for in the cancer program. The accounting is expected to be final after January. read more >
The state medical board will not renew the educational license of Dr. Gareth Morgan, director of the UAMS Myeloma Institute, until he completes a course for distressed physicians. read more >
An Arkansas board has approved regulations that add more requirements for doctors prescribing high doses of opioids. read more >