Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Nurses from Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital’s outpatient clinics filed a class-action lawsuit alleging they were not paid for overtime, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Oct. 6.

Munster, Ind.-based Community Hospital and its operator, Munster Medical Research Foundation, will pay $158,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused the hospital of not accommodating a nurse after a work injury. 

Three states have filed civil complaints against a group of medical centers for allegedly performing unnecessary surgeries on Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, nj.com reported Oct. 4.

The uncertainty surrounding House leadership has created a “more challenging environment” for hospital priorities, America’s Essential Hospitals’ vice president of legislative affairs, Jason Pray, told Becker’s on Oct. 4.

A Florida nurse accused of tampering with a consumer medication, injectable hydromorphone, pleaded guilty to the charges Oct. 3, and faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

Another 301 patients have sued Robert Hadden, MD, and Columbia University, alleging the gynecologist sexually abused them during examinations, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 3.

A former nurse charged with killing two nursing home patients is facing a third patient death suit, Trib Live reported Oct. 3.

At least three hospitals have been accused of violating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act this year in cases in which they allegedly did not provide appropriate care to pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies. 

Children’s Hospital Colorado has filed a legal challenge to the Defense Health Agency’s planned reimbursement changes to Tricare that the Aurora-based system said would significantly lower the amount it is paid for outpatient services. 

A California law that allowed regulators to discipline physicians for spreading misinformation related to COVID-19 has been repealed, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Oct. 2.