Dallas-based Cornerstone Healthcare Group and Houston-based Cornerstone Hospital Medical Center have agreed to pay more than $21.6 million to settle claims that the long-term acute care facility improperly billed Medicare.
Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues
Corporate name confusion delays lawsuit accusing New Mexico hospital of false advertising
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has clarified the name of a defendant in a lawsuit that alleges Alta Vista Regional Medical Center in Las Vegas, N.M., engaged in false advertising and overcharging patients, the Taos News reported Feb. 22.
Former Lurie Children's employee charged for alleged laughing gas theft
A former employee of Chicago-based Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital has been charged for alleged theft and sale of 10 tanks of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas.
Couple sues Fujifilm Irvine Scientific over recalled embryo culture oil
A couple in Los Angeles is suing after they say their embryos were killed by toxic oil used at a fertility clinic.
Police shoot, injure man during altercation in Ascension hospital
A suspect in an arson investigation is in trouble with the law again after attacking a deputy inside Racine, Wis.-based Ascension All Saints Hospital early Feb. 20, Fox6 reported.
10 recent healthcare industry lawsuits, settlements
From Centene paying $215 million to California to settle allegations it overcharged the state’s Medicaid program, to two Louisiana health systems accused of sharing patient data without consent, here are 10 healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements …
$7.5M collected, $246K spent: Feds shutter healthcare-sharing ministry
Federal authorities have shut down a Missouri-based healthcare-sharing ministry that allegedly only spent 3.5 percent of the money it collected toward paying medical bills, the Kansas City Star reported Feb. 20.
Nurse charged with murder in patient's death loses license
The Michigan Board of Nursing has revoked the license of a home health nurse facing murder charges in a 3-year-old patient’s death, the Michigan Department of Attorney General said Feb. 17.
The senator will see you now, doctor: Physicians return to lobby Congress
After staying away over the past several years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians have returned to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress, Kaiser Health News reported Feb. 17.
CHI Health settles suit over nurses' on-call pay
Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health agreed to pay $800,000 in a class-action lawsuit filed by its nurses over remote, on-call work they allegedly performed without proper compensation, Omaha World-Herald reported Feb. 16.
