Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

NewYork-Presbyterian/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital agreed to pay millions of dollars to resolve kickback allegations.

The Federal Trade Commission and 10 states are suing a “sham” charity and its operator for deceiving donors and funneling profits into its own pockets.

Police arrested a 54-year-old employee at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital in Gifford, Fla., March 7 after law enforcement found the individual had firearms and ammunition in his possession on the facility’s campus, local news outlets reported af…

From a New York City physician indicted in an alleged $20.7 million scheme to a call center owner indicted in a $97 million scheme, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases that Becker’s has reported on since Feb. 16:

Chloe Zellner, 18, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for carjacking and assaulting a nurse outside of an Illinois hospital, WTAQ reported March 6. 

A Washington state county court on Feb. 28 dismissed a lawsuit filed against UW Medicine, which accused the Seattle-based system of losing a patient’s tumor before it could be tested for cancer. 

An Oregon law firm is reviewing 58 cases involving claims of infection at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford, 34 of which involve wrongful death, according to a March 5 report from ABC affiliate KDRV. 

A nurse filed a lawsuit against her former employer, PeaceHealth, alleging the Vancouver, Wash.-based system failed to provide 30-minute meal breaks because of understaffing, The Columbian reported March 5. 

A recent report from Birmingham, Ala.-based Medical Properties Trust, the largest hospital landlord in the U.S., touched on the possibility of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission activity and government investigations regarding some of MPT’s assets…

A nurse practitioner is accused of writing fake prescriptions for thousands of oxycodone pills while unemployed, TribLive reported March. 4.