Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

A class-action lawsuit was filed against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and its affiliate, San Antonio, Texas-based Baptist Health System, over an April data breach that has affected 1.2 million patients, the Dallas Morning News reported July 12. 

David Jankowski, DO, was convicted on July 11 by a federal jury in Detroit on 30 charges related to the unlawful distribution of schedule II, III and IV controlled substances and healthcare fraud.

A CEO running dozens of companies across two states has been indicted in New Jersey after he allegedly trafficked billions of dollars worth of fake Cisco equipment and sold it to hospitals and other organizations.

Many physicians are expressing concern that they may be at risk of prosecution for providing miscarriage care in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s overturning, Roll Call reported July 12.

A nurse and paramedic were stabbed July 11 inside SSM Health DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, Mo., according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

HHS issued guidance to hospitals July 11 to clarify that abortion is covered under the federal law requiring Medicare hospitals to provide all patients appropriate emergency care — including abortion care — regardless of state law.

From a West Virginia health system accused of wrongful termination to former employees suing a Minnesota system over its vaccination policy, here are the latest hospital lawsuits making headlines. 

An appeals court has given nine Maine healthcare workers who challenged the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate based on their religious objections until July 11 to file an amended complaint with their names, the Portland Press Herald reported.

Teladoc and Amwell settled their patent infringement lawsuit over technologies used in remote patient monitoring, Bloomberg Law reported July 6.  

Weirton (W.Va.) Medical Center has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of claims to Medicare that violated the Stark Law.