Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Since March, Becker’s has covered seven cases of opioids and other medications being replaced with saline and other substances, all of them perpetrated by nurses.

A suspect was arrested and charged for stabbing a nurse at Gardner, Mass.-based Heywood Hospital on June 12, according to police. 

A Tea, S.D., nurse was indicted with replacing opioid and other medications with different medications.

Providers who use their home address as a distant site or place of service for telehealth services are putting themselves at risk, according to healthcare coding and reimbursement consultant Terry Fletcher.

Lake Charles (La.) Memorial Health System has reached agreement with bond issuers over disputed claims arising from Hurricane Laura in August 2020.

A former nurse in Kentucky who pleaded guilty to manslaughter of a patient has been sentenced to five years in prison with credit for time served, CBS affiliate WKYT reported from the courtroom June 8. 

Shareholders of Rahway, N.J.-based Merck said June 8 they “denounce” the drugmaker’s recent lawsuit against HHS and CMS. 

A nurse anesthetist testified June 7 in a case against his former co-worker, a plastic surgeon who is facing charges of reckless manslaughter in connection to a patient’s death in 2020, FOX affiliate KDVR reported. 

A former physician at a hospital owned by Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is suing because of alleged discriminatory pay rates as well as frequent sexist behavior by a superior, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported June 7.

A woman was arrested June 6 after police said she threatened Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital via tweet, Local10 reported.