Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

 From a California physician agreeing to pay $23.9 million to settle allegations his practice submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, to two New York pharmacy owners indicted for their alleged participation in a $29 million scheme involvi…

Someone broke into the shuttered La Porte (Ind.) Hospital and illegally removed patient records from shedding bins to post on YouTube, Fox affiliate WXIN reported May 5.

Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health System will pay $19 million to the family of a child left permanently brain damaged as a result of misdiagnosis as a newborn, the Star Tribune said April 28.

Texas has launched an investigation into whether Dell Children’s Medical Center is unlawfully performing gender-transition surgeries on minors, Attorney General Ken Paxton said May 5.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health filed suit against a former employee for allegedly posting graphic photos and videos from the morgue at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. 

The family of Gary York Kirkman, the patient killed in an April 14 golf cart accident at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, plans to take legal action against the hospital. 

Sacramento-based Sutter Health is facing a $250 million lawsuit amid allegations the health system failed to live up to promises it made regarding a major liver sample center whose products are used in medical research.

The Wisconsin Hospital Association is opposing legislation that would require hospitals to create a list of 300 “shoppable services” or nonemergency procedures they provide, Wisconsin Public Radio reported May 4.

A Wisconsin oncologist is under scrutiny after three whistleblower lawsuits in the last few years, PBS Wisconsin reported May 3.

A Detroit nurse was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to tampering with vials and syringes of liquid painkillers.