Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill into law that aims to protect healthcare workers from surgical smoke by mandating the development and adoption of enforceable workplace protections. 

A former rheumatologist at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital has agreed to stop practicing medicine amid allegations that he performed inappropriate pelvic and breast exams on patients. The physician, Derrick Todd, MD, has not worked at Brigham…

A Great Neck, N.Y., man pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of more than $25 million.

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.