Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

A 76-year-old woman is accused of fatally shooting her terminally ill husband at a Florida hospital campus over the weekend.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is being accused of infringing on the patent of a diagnostic technology, according to an amended federal lawsuit filed Jan. 18.

The New Mexico attorney general’s office is investigating Gallup-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services, NBC affiliate KOB reported Jan. 19. 

From a Florida physician getting 20 years in prison for the “largest ever” case of its kind, to a New York gastroenterologist getting 30 months in prison for a Medicare fraud scheme, here are 13 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker’s has reported sinc…

Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Health has agreed to pay $180,000 to resolve allegations it denied a deaf woman a job because of her disability.

A federal jury convicted a 23-year-old Michigan woman for committing fraud in a yearslong pharmaceutical “coupon” case totaling $65 million, according to the Justice Department. 

OB-GYN Vernon Cannon, MD, PhD, and his former employer Downers Grove, Ill.-based Duly Health and Care, formerly DuPage Medical Group, were hit with seven misconduct lawsuits brought by patients, according to a Jan. 11 news release shared with Becker’s.

A man was arrested Jan. 5 after allegedly making threats about Tulsa, Okla.-based Saint Francis Hospital to a gas station clerk and posting online, police said in a statement on their Facebook page.

Two emergency medical service workers in Sangamon County, Ill., are facing first-degree murder charges after one of their patients died of compressional and positional asphyxia, NBC affiliate KCBD reported Jan. 11.

A nurse practitioner filed a lawsuit against CVS Health Jan. 11, alleging the company fired her for refusing to prescribe contraceptives and drugs that can induce abortion.