Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has launched an investigation into what led to Dallas-based Steward Health Care filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 6.

Pittsburgh-based UPMC has agreed to pay $38 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit filed against the health system and 13 staff neurosurgeons in 2012, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The Justice Department formed a task force to study monopolies and anti-competitive behavior in healthcare. 

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems is the latest health system to sue MultiPlan over allegations the data analytics firm conspired with major payers to underpay providers by tens of billions annually.

Former NBA player Glen “Big Baby” Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the league’s healthcare plan out of $5 million, USA Today reported May 9. 

The Fair Political Practices Commission has rejected a union’s complaint that alleges Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern County Hospital Authority overpaid its executives through their own private consulting firms.

A group of federal lawmakers, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have introduced legislation they say would eliminate all $220 billion in medical debt held by Americans. 

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and the Catholic Medical Association sued the Biden administration May 6 over a new rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act that the administration says advances protections against discrimination in hea…

A Florida lab owner was sentenced to 10 years in prison for three fraud schemes, including a conspiracy involving $25 million in fraudulent Medicare claims submitted by Ellwood City (Pa.) Medical Center. 

A Missouri man is facing a second-degree murder charge after police say he allegedly strangled his wife in her hospital bed at HCA Midwest Health’s Centerpoint Medical Center, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office said May 4.