A nurse and paramedic were stabbed July 11 inside SSM Health DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, Mo., according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues
HHS clarifies: All US hospitals must provide abortions in emergency cases
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.
7 recent hospital lawsuits
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.
Court to Maine healthcare workers: Reveal names for vaccination mandate case to proceed
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, Amwell settle remote health tech patent suit
Teladoc and Amwell settled their patent infringement lawsuit over technologies used in remote patient monitoring, Bloomberg Law reported July 6.
West Virginia hospital to pay $1.5M to resolve alleged Stark Law violations
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.
Feds recovered $5B from healthcare fraud cases in 2021: 8 things to know
The U.S. Justice Department and HHS brought in more than $5 billion in healthcare fraud settlements in fiscal year 2021, according to a report jointly released by the agencies July 5.
Healthcare billing fraud: 9 recent cases
From the conviction of a former healthcare management company leader in a $1.4 billion billing scheme, to a Kentucky physician agreeing to pay more than $500,000 to settle allegations he submitted more than $3 million false claims to Medicare, he…
Florida nursing home chain to pay $1.75M to settle COVID-19 vaccine false claim allegations
West Palm Beach, Fla.-based MorseLife Nursing Home Health System agreed to pay $1.75 million June 30 to settle claims that they vaccinated hundreds of ineligible people for COVID-19 at a clinic as part of the CDC’s Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Ca…
Detroit hospital housekeepers fired for blowing whistle on unsanitary conditions, lawsuit says
Two women contracted as housekeepers at Detroit’s Harper University Hospital and Hutzel Women’s Hospital filed a lawsuit June 30, claiming they were fired in retaliation for reporting concerns about what they described as dirty operating rooms and othe…
