Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Community Hospital for the Monterey Peninsula and its parent company, Montage Health, may file for a new trial after losing a $9.475 million wrongful termination case, Monterey County Weekly reported Oct. 26. 

A woman was arrested after police said she kicked two nurses at a hospital within Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System, of which her husband serves as CEO.

Sokari Bobmanuel, the former pharmacist-in-chief of Cornerstone Rx Pharmacy in Houston, and co-conspirator Alantha Stewart, the co-owner of Sunnyside Medical clinic were sentenced to a combined 24 years in prison for their roles in running a pill mill …

Cindy Norgen, 61, a former account manager at Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, was given a minimum sentence of four years and two months in prison for embezzling more than $2 million from the health system, MLive reported Oct. 25.

Ten people have been indicted in an alleged scheme that defrauded Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance companies out of at least $20 million by trafficking black-market HIV medication. 

Half of the hospitals that have been fined by CMS for alleged price transparency violations have appealed their penalties. 

The federal government is planning to take another No Surprises Act court loss to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, according to an Oct. 20 court filing. 

A Wyoming nurse pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a $6.1 million healthcare scheme in Idaho.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has widened an investigation into Stone Academy, a nursing school that was shut down in February after failing to address multiple compliance issues. 

A Kaiser Permanente hospital in California was fined $18,000 after an MRI machine’s magnetic field pulled a metal bed and a nurse, causing her serious injuries, the Daily Post reported Oct. 20.