The Washington Hospital Association filed a lawsuit Oct. 16 against the state over the state’s health department’s change in interpretation of a long-standing charity care law. According to the lawsuit, hospitals statewide are required to provide chari…
More than 100 plaintiffs have joined four separate lawsuits against Derrick Todd, MD, a former rheumatologist at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital accused of performing inappropriate pelvic and breast exams on patients, The Boston Globe reporte…
A Florida woman was charged with operating an assisted living facility without a license and organized scheme to defraud after she was allegedly found running a postoperative care company and using the license of a California nurse, ABC affiliate WPLG …
Mayo Clinic and Lifepoint Health are suing Bristol Myers Squibb and its subsidiary, Celgene, alleging the companies inflated the price of the cancer drug Revlimid by paying other drugmakers to keep their generic versions off the market, theSan Francisc…
Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health of Long Island will not have to defend allegations it fraudulently diverted a nursing home’s service payments to another facility while certifying compliance, according to an Oct. 16 Bloomberg report.
New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University is facing mounting lawsuits from former patients who claim they underwent fertility procedures without receiving painkillers under the assumption that they would.
A Cook County, Ill., jury awarded $55.5 million to Shamond Butler, 20, a man who suffered brain injuries during his birth at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Oct. 12.
Kaiser Permanente has reached a $200 million settlement with the California Department of Managed Health Care to resolve deficiencies in its delivery and management of behavioral healthcare.
A former Georgia paramedic was sentenced to eight years in prison after a patient died in an ambulance crash, Fox affiliate WAGA reported Oct. 12.
More than 60 women filed a class-action lawsuit accusing a former Boston-based Brigham and Women’s physician of sexual abuse, WBUR reported Oct. 11.
