Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Colorado Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera signed HB23-1215, legislation that will mandate hospitals increase transparency around facility fees and prohibit healthcare organizations from charging facility fees for telehealth procedures.

Stanley Berry, MD, is suing Detroit-based Wayne State School of Medicine for allegedly stifling his advocacy for Black patients and passing him over for promotion after speaking out, The South End reported May 30.

Syracuse, N.Y.-based Crouse Hospital is seeking to overturn the federal government’s decision not to forgive a $10 million paycheck protection loan it received in early 2020 to pay employees during the COVID-19 pandemic, syracuse.com reported May 30.

Here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker’s has reported since May 9: 

A jury has awarded $31.6 million to a family in a medical practice case against MyMichigan Medical Center-Midland, ABC12 reported May 25. 

A former physician at Rochester (N.Y.) Regional Health has been found not guilty of manslaughter in a case involving a patient’s fatal overdose, the Rochester Beacon reported May 26.

A Pennsylvania physician was sentenced to six months in prison and one year of supervised release for his involvement in an opioid fraud scheme.

Wisconsin suspended the license of a twice-reprimanded physician after allegedly violating board orders and administering unapproved treatments on a stage IV endometrial cancer patient, who died in August. 

A Pennsylvania nurse was charged May 24 with “administering lethal doses of unnecessary medication” that killed two patients and hospitalized another, according to the state attorney general’s office. 

A judge has dismissed two claims filed by fired MetroHealth CEO Akram Boutros, MD, against the Cleveland-based health system, NBC affiliate WKYC reported May 23.