A surgeon is suing Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and the hospital’s chief of surgery over alleged discrimination she faced as a female, foreign-born physician, according to Bangor Daily News.
Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues
St. Luke's accuses Ammon Bundy of avoiding lawsuit payment
Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System has filed a new lawsuit as it seeks to get the money a court ordered Ammon Bundy to pay in a lawsuit alleging harassment and intimidation against St. Luke’s and its workers.
Louisiana hospital reaches $1.2M overtime settlement
Donaldsonville, La.-based Prevost Memorial Hospital reached a settlement worth up to $1.16 million in a lawsuit accusing the hospital of not paying overtime for nurses, The Advocate reported Aug. 14.
Louisiana hospital reaches $1.2M overtime settlement
Donaldsonville, La.-based Prevost Memorial Hospital reached a settlement worth up to $1.16 million in a lawsuit accusing the hospital of not paying overtime for nurses, The Advocate reported Aug. 14.
Physician charged with assaulting patients at NewYork Presbyterian hospital
Zhi Alan Cheng, MD, has been charged with sexually abusing three patients at New York-Presbyterian Queens hospital and raping three other patients in his home.
NP pleads guilty for role in illegal opioid distribution
A nurse practitioner in Fort Ann, N.Y., has pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances outside of professional practice, according to an Aug. 11 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.
Vanderbilt faces civil rights probe
After sharing patients’ medical information with the state attorney general amid a probe into transgender care practices, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is now facing a civil rights investigation, the Los Angeles Times repo…
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Purdue Pharma's $6B opioid settlement
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a national settlement with Purdue Pharma on Aug. 11 that would have shielded Sackler family owners from additional civil suits over the opioid epidemic and limited personal liability to $6 billion, The New York Tim…
Healthcare billing fraud: 12 recent cases
From 12 people sentenced for defrauding Blue Cross Blue Shield to a federally qualified health center settling improper billing allegations, here are 12 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker’s reported since July 27:
'Like a mafia enforcer for insurers:' AdventHealth sues MultiPlan for alleged price fixing
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth is suing MultiPlan for an alleged ongoing conspiracy among commercial health insurers to reduce the reimbursement rates they pay to providers for out-of-network services.
