Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Four individuals face charges in the four-year, nationwide trafficking of human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School. “Some crimes defy understanding,” one U.S. attorney said of the case.  

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law June 13 aimed at improving patient safety by closing a longstanding loophole that allowed an infamous physician to keep practicing despite concerns of harm being done to patients, NBC affiliate KXAN reporte…

From Merck suing the federal government to stop Medicare drug price negotiations, to a judge ordering a preliminary injunction preventing a former Cigna executive from working for CVS Health, here are 12 healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements Bec…

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.