Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall in Newburgh, N.Y., is facing a $21 million lawsuit filed by an anesthesiologist group that claims the hospital breached an exclusive contract to use the group’s physicians for its anesthesia services, the Westfair Busines…
From Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems to Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health, the Justice Department has been busy looking into multiple health systems and healthcare organizations over the last few months.
A nurse previously employed by Baptist Hospital East in Louisville, Ky., was arrested July 1 for allegedly using patients’ stolen credit cards, according to ABC affiliate WHAS.
The Justice Department issued a civil investigation demand to Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings on Nov. 3, according to a June 27 court document filed by Prospect.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Chevron deference, Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health filed a lawsuit against HHS Secretary Xaiver Becerra challenging what the system calls the secretary’s “irrational and unlawful interpret…
The new CMS price transparency rule went into effect July 1, requiring hospitals to report price information in a standard machine-readable format, according to the American Hospital Association.
A lead researcher for an Alzheimer’s drug candidate was indicted June 27 in a case alleging he fabricated data, according to the Justice Department.
In May, surveyors issued Jefferson Health’s Abington (Pa.) Hospital an immediate jeopardy warning after determining a security guard used excessive force against a psychiatric patient who had not displayed aggressive behavior, according to an inspectio…
Rishi Shah, co-founder and former CEO of healthcare technology startup Outcome Health, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme involving about $1 billion in fraudulently obtained funds, the Chicago Tribune report…
OptumRx will pay $20 million to settle allegations it improperly dispensed some opioid medications, the Justice Department said June 27.
