Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

A former Yale New Haven Health Systems payroll worker admitted April 27 to her role in an embezzlement scheme that defrauded more than $100,000 from the health system. 

From Tenet Healthcare suing the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to hospitals suing HHS over a Medicare billing calculation, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines. 

A New York physician agreed to pay $564,217 to resolve allegations of submitting false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department said April 27. 

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has filed a lawsuit to prevent the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration from inspecting the Hospitals of Providence Transmountain location in El Paso, Texas, to determine whether workers there a…

A Mississippi pharmacist was sentenced to 10 years in prison over his role in an $180 million fraud scheme, the Justice Department said April 26.

Police have arrested a man in connection to the Jan. 27 attack of an intensive care unit nurse at Ochsner Medical Center-West Bank in Gretna, La., according to nola.com. 

HHS April 22 filed a notice of appeal regarding a Texas federal judge’s ruling that sided with providers in a lawsuit over the No Surprises Act. 

The Dutch multinational healthcare conglomerate Royal Philips NV has been issued a subpoena by the Department of Justice regarding a recall of a sleep apnea device, reported The Wall Street Journal April 25. 

Cleveland Clinic is among more than 125 hospitals and health systems suing HHS regarding the calculation of payments owed under Medicare Part A bills and the disproportionate share hospital payment adjustment, Law Street Media reported April 21. 

The former CFO of UK HealthCare in Lexington, Ky., was awarded $1.75 million by a jury April 20 in a wrongful termination lawsuit, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.