Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Hazard, Ky.-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare and one of its cardiologists agreed to pay over $3 million to resolve allegations they submitted improper Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid claims for services not covered.

 Hours after a Texas judge granted a woman’s request to have an abortion, the state’s attorney general sent a letter to hospitals in Houston, saying they may face civil and legal consequences if they permit the procedure to occur. 

A medical resident and two nurses at Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center were stabbed Dec. 8, according to police and the hospital. 

Florida lawmakers are proposing a package of healthcare laws for the state’s 2024 legislative session that would expand the healthcare workforce, address emergency room crowding, and create a loan program for healthcare innovators. 

A panel of outside experts who reviewed Harvard Medical School’s morgue operations following allegations that a former employee at the morgue stole and sold human remains from bodies donated for medical research has recommended procedural improvements,…

Washington University in St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, accusing him of violating HIPAA during an investigation into its youth transgender care center, The Kansas City Star reported Dec. 7. 

The Minnesota Board of Medical Practice has indefinitely suspended a respiratory therapist from practicing in the state after determining she failed to properly prepare a patient for transfer to the ICU, The Star Tribune reported Dec. 7. 

California’s minimum wage for healthcare workers is set to increase starting in 2024 under legislation signed into law by the governor this fall, which he is now looking to modify. 

Attorney General John Formella has released the identity of the officer involved in a New Hampshire hospital shooting on Nov. 17 that left a security guard and the suspect dead.

Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis, who is presiding over the ongoing lawsuit between former students of the closed Stone Academy nursing school and its owners, wrote in a Dec. 4 preliminary ruling that the students’ are likely to prevail.