Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

After pleading guilty to forging two FDA clearance letters, a former employee of a medical device company was sentenced to one year of prison, the Justice Department said Jan. 24. 

U.S. News & World Report is suing San Francisco’s top attorney over subpoenas seeking documents and information relating to its rankings of hospitals, according to court documents accessed by Becker’s.

Six months after a bomb threat was received at Georgetown (Ky.) Community Hospital, police have arrested a hospital security guard.

An appeals court partially revived a New York surgeon’s office challenge of the No Surprises Act, Law360 reported Jan. 23. 

Law enforcement is investigating threats against at least one nurse at Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, according to The Lund Report.

Johnson & Johnson has tentatively agreed to settle a sweeping probe over its marketing of talcum-based baby powder for about $700 million, a company executive told The Wall Street Journal.

Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health filed a more than $7 million lawsuit against its own oncology provider group, ABC affiliate WSET reported Jan. 23.

A former lead emergency room nurse at Portland, Ore.-based Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center filed a whistleblower lawsuit Jan. 8, accusing the hospital of firing him after repeatedly raising concerns about workplace safety. 

The former president and CEO of Whittier, Calif-based Santa Maria’s Children and Family Center was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for submitting fraudulent claims to the state’s Medicaid program.

Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System has placed an employee on unpaid administrative leave and launched an internal investigation after learning of allegations against the employee from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.