The Department of Justice has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Rick Nassenstein, former CFO, president and co-owner of Cardiac Imaging, which provides mobile cardiac positron emission tomography scans.
Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues
HCA files response to North Carolina's lawsuit
HCA Healthcare has filed a motion with the North Carolina Business Court, asking it to dismiss claims from the North Carolina attorney general that the for-profit hospital operator violated its 2019 asset purchase agreement for Asheville, N.C.-based Mi…
Crozer Health withdraws residency accreditation lawsuit
Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings, which owns Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health, has withdrawn its lawsuit against the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education after the organization removed Crozer-Chester Medical Center’s surgical …
2 years, $2B in allegedly fraudulent catheter orders
CMS and the FBI are investigating an alleged catheter fraud scheme that is estimated to have cost Medicare about $2 billion in two years, The Washington Post reported Feb. 9.
Pennsylvania physician sentenced in patient death
A Pennsylvania physician was sentenced to 22 years in prison for overprescribing controlled substances that resulted in the death of a patient.
Judge rules Harvard not responsible in stolen human remains case
A Suffolk Superior Court judge has dismissed families’ lawsuits against Boston-based Harvard Medical School related to its morgue scandal involving the theft of human remains from bodies donated for medical research, multiple media outlets reported.
Washington state lawmakers mull new hospital merger requirement
The Washington State Senate has passed Senate Bill 5241, known as the Keep Our Care Act, which would add care access rules for hospital mergers.
12 recent health system lawsuits, settlements
From an orthopedic practice suing to keep to Wisconsin hospitals opened past their planned closure date to a judge upholding $183M malpractice verdict against Penn Medicine, here are 12 lawsuits, settlements and legal developments Becker’s has reported…
Ex-California hospital CEO pleads no contest in corruption case
A former California hospital CEO has pleaded no contest to charges related to his time at Healthcare Conglomerate Associates, a hospital management firm based in Tulare, Calif.
Sutter hospital employee stabbed, man charged
A 53-year-old man has been charged in connection with the stabbing of an employee at Sutter Health’s Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, Calif., San Mateo County prosecutors said in a Feb. 9 media statement shared with Becker’s.
