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1. Lawsuit Against UT Southwestern Medical Center to Move Forward
(Matching tags: whistleblower,UT Southwestern,lawsuit) Larry Gentilello, MD, has filed a lawsuit against Dallas' University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center for demoting him after complaining about laidback supervision of residents and billing fraud, according ...
2. Six Radiologists Sue Two California Sutter Hospitals After Being Denied Privileges
(Matching tags: Sutter Health,lawsuit,privledges,radiologists) Six interventional radiologists with Radiological Association of Sacramento (Calif.) Medical Group have filed suit against Sutter Roseville (Calif) Medical Center and Sutter Medical Center Sacramento after ...
3. Lawsuit Settled Blocking California Joint Replacement Hospital
(Matching tags: lawsuit,replacement hospital,urgent care) John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, Calif., has settled its lawsuit against planners of a joint replacement hospital, allowing the project to complete its approval process with the city of Indio, ...
4. Caregroup Healthcare System in Boston Settles Lunchbreak Pay Lawsuit for $8.5M
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Massachusetts,Boston,Beth Israel Deaconess,overtime,Caregroup Healthcare,lunch pay,class action suit) Caregroup Healthcare System, including its flagship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by employees who said they weren’t paid for work ...
5. Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Physician-Owned Hospitals in Health Reform Law
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,lawsuit,physician-owned hospital,Physician Hospitals of America,moratorium,Texas Spine & Joint) A federal lawsuit is being filed against the health reform law's ban on new physician-owned hospitals and expansions of existing facilities, according to a release by Physician Hospitals of America, a ...
6. Novant Health Sues Aetna Over Data Used in Contract Negotiations
(Matching tags: lawsuit,North Carolina,Aetna,Novant,contract negotiations,Presbyterian Hospitals) North Carolina-based Novant Health has sued Aetna over data used by the insurer in contract negotiations, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.
7. Colorado Hospital Association Sues State Over New Rules
(Matching tags: lawsuit,expansions,Colorado Hospital Association,off-campus sites) The Colorado Hospital Association filed a lawsuit against new state regulations on off-campus sites and hospital expansions, according to a report by the Denver Business Journal. ...
8. HHS Files Motion to Dismiss Virginia Challenge to Insurance Mandate
(Matching tags: healthcare reform,lawsuit,Virginia,HHS,insurance mandate) The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to dismiss the state of Virginia's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law to require most Americans to have health ...
9. Physician Sues South Carolina's Aiken Regional Medical Center for Conspiring to Stifle Competition
(Matching tags: lawsuit,South Carolina,Margo Hein-Muniz,Aiken Regional) Margo Hein-Muniz, MD, a board-certified OB/GYN, has filed a civil suit against Aiken (S.C.) Regional Medical Center and its parent Universal Health Services as well as several affiliated physicians and ...
10. Five More States Joining Health Reform Lawsuit, Bringing Total to 18
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Florida,health reform,Indiana,North Dakota,Arizona,Mississippi,Attorney General) Five more states will join the original 13 states in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health reform law's mandate for Americans to have health insurance coverage, according to a release ...
11. Conservative Physicians Organization Sues to Overturn Reform Law
(Matching tags: lawsuit,health reform,end of private medicine) The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a nationwide conservative physicians' organization, has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the new health reform law, according to a report by the ...
12. U.S. Supreme Court Limits Whistleblower Lawsuits, for Now
(Matching tags: lawsuit,whistleblower,limits) New decision by the U.S. Supreme Court limits the use whistleblower lawsuits against hospitals and other organizations for alleged fraud against the federal government, according to a report by Bloomberg ...
13. Historical Society Asks Judge to Block Two Proposed New Orleans Hospitals
(Matching tags: hospitals,lawsuit,Louisiana,construction,National Trust) The National Trust for Historic Preservation has asked a U.S. District judge to block the construction of two replacement hospitals in New Orleans' Mid-City district, saying it would ruin the historical ...
14. San Diego County Hospital Districts in Legal Battle Over Territory
(Matching tags: California,lawsuit,Tri-City Healthcare,Palomar Pomerado Health,territory) Two rival hospital districts in North San Diego County are locked in a legal battle over territory, according to a report by the San Diego Union-Tribune.
15. Texas Jury Finds Memorial Hermann Did Not Break Antitrust Laws in Suit Brought Forth by Owners of Competing Physician-Owned Hospital — Case Demonstrates Difficulty in Winning Such Suits
(Matching tags: anticompetitive,physician-owned,Town & Country,Memorial Hermann,antitrust,lawsuit) A Texas jury found that Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare did not violate antitrust laws in regard to a suit brought forth by six physician-owners of the now defunct Town & Country Hospital, according ...
16. Trial Ends on Sale of Hospital District to California Physician Group
(Matching tags: California,lawsuit,kickbacks,Valley Health System,Prime Healthcare) Testimony has ended in a trial over the proposed sale of Hemet, Calif.-based Valley Health System to Physicians for Healthy Hospitals, which alleges that the physician group influenced appraisers in their ...
17. Pharmaceutical Company Teva Settles Drug-Pricing Lawsuits
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Teva Pharmaceutical Industries,Ven-A-Care,drug pricing) Teva Pharmaceutical Industries will take a $315 million charge in its fourth quarter in connection with a settlement to resolve a drug-pricing lawsuit brought by Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys against ...
18. Wisconsin Supreme Court Will Hear Medical Society's Case Against State For Using Liability Fund to Balance Budget
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Wisconsin,Wisconsin Medical Society,medical liability fund) The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought forward by the Wisconsin Medical Society contesting 2007 legislation that allowed the state to transfer money from its medical liability compensation ...
19. Pennsylvania Group Could Receive $3M From Sale of Closing Hospital
(Matching tags: Medicaid,lawsuit,Pennsylvania,UPMC Braddock Hospital,Heritage Community Initiatives) Heritage Community Initiatives, successor of the Heritage Health Foundation, could receive $3 million from its 1996 sale of Braddock (Pa.) Hospital to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center if a U.S. ...
20. Connecticut Attorney General Brings First HIPAA Suit Under HITECH Act
(Matching tags: Health Net,lawsuit,Connecticut,HIPAA) Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal brought the first HIPAA action under the HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in a suit against Health Net of Connecticut, according ...
21. ACC's Lawsuit Against Medicare's Physician Fee Cuts Dropped
(Matching tags: CMS,lawsuit,reimbursements,American College of Cardiology,2010 physician fee schedule,PPIS) A lawsuit filed in December by the American College of Cardiology against the Department of Health and Human Services for cutting Medicare reimbursements for cardiology services has been dismissed by the ...
22. Mississippi Hospital Sues Its Former Management Firm, Former Executives, Over Bankruptcy
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Mississippi,Natchez Regional) Natchez (Miss.) Regional Medical Center has sued its former management company and two former top executives for $46 million, according to a report by the Clarion-Ledger.
23. Six Massachusetts Hospitals Suing State Over Low Medicaid Payments
(Matching tags: hospitals,Medicaid,lawsuit,Massachusetts) Six Massachusetts hospitals with high proportions of government funding are suing the state, saying they were not paid the full Medicaid funding they were owed, according to a report by WBZ Radio.
24. Lawsuits Charge Philadelphia-Area Hospitals for Not Paying for Work in Breaks
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Pennsylvania,Philadelphia,hospital,unpaid break) Seven Philadelphia-area healthcare systems are being sued for allegedly not compensating nurses and other employees for work during unpaid meal breaks, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer. ...
25. Lawsuit Puts Planned Joint Replacement Hospital in Limbo
(Matching tags: California,lawsuit,joint replacement hospital,Indio,Kennedy Memorial Hospital) Initial construction on a 12-bed joint replacement hospital in Indio, Calif., has been halted due to a lawsuit filed by the local full-service hospital, John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital, according to ...
26. 13 States Suing Drug Manufacturer Amgen Over Kickbacks to Physicians
(Matching tags: lawsuit,kickbacks,Amgen,Aranesp) Thirteen states are suing Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based drug manufacturer Amgen alleging that the company provided kickbacks to medical providers to boost sales of Aranesp, a medication for anemia, according ...
27. West Penn's Lawsuit Against UPMC, Highmark Dismissed
(Matching tags: UPMC,lawsuit,Pennsylvania,Highmark,antitrust,West Penn Allegheny) An antitrust lawsuit filed by Pittsburgh's West Penn Allegheny Health System against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and insurer Highmark has been dismissed after a U.S. District judge ruled ...
28. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Clears Way for Nevada Endoscopy Center Trials
(Matching tags: lawsuit,patient safety,endoscopy,Nevada,hepatitis C) U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mike Nakagawa lifted a hold that could possibly delay the first three trials regarding the Nevada hepatitis C outbreak that involved the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada in Las ...
29. Former CEO Sues Money-Losing Vermont Hospital, Claiming Payments
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Vermont,Harvey Yorke) The former CEO of the 99-bed Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., has sued the hospital, claiming he is owed $27,700 a month in payments for 22 months after exiting the job, according ...
30. Seattle-Area Hospital Continues to Fight Planned Hospital, Even After Groundbreaking
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Washington,Seattle,Swedish Medical Center,Overlake Hospital) Even as 697-bed Swedish Medical Center in Seattle broke ground on a 175-bed hospital in suburban Issaquah Highlands, a rival hospital was pursuing a lawsuit to stop the project, according to King 5 News. ...
31. Hospital CFO Whistle-Blower Leads to $2.4M Medicare Antikickback Settlement
(Matching tags: California,settlement,lawsuit,Tulare Regional Medical Center,whistle-blower) Tulare (Calif.) Regional Medical Center and its parent Tulare District Healthcare System have agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging they provided kickbacks to physicians ...
32. New Jersey Hospital Files Suit Against Horizon BCBS
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Bayonne Medical Center,New Jersey,Horizon BCBS,out-of-network) Bayonne (N.J.) Medical Center has filed a federal law suit against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, alleging the insurer of "intimidating" patients into leaving the hospital to avoid high ...
33. Fired California Hospital Executives Sue Public Health District
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Tri-City Medical Center,Calilfornia,Tri-City Healthcare District,executives,firing) A group of former executives from Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., is suing Tri-City Healthcare District, which operates the hospital, and four of its board members for wrongful firing and ...
34. ER Physician Sues New York Hospital
(Matching tags: New York,lawsuit,Good Samaritan Hospital) Michael Lippe, MD, has filed suit against Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.Y., alleging that the hospital violated his contract by hiring another company to deliver emergency care without notifying ...
35. Washington Oncologist Files Lawsuit Against Hospital Over Physician Employment
(Matching tags: hospitals,lawsuit,Washington,Olympic Medical Center,private physician) Robert Witham, MD, a medical oncologist in Port Angeles, Wash., has filed a lawsuit against Olympic Medical Center, which alleges that no state law provisions exist that allow public hospital taxing districts ...
36. Tennessee Medical Association Sues Collections Firm Over Repayments
(Matching tags: lawsuit,Tennessee Medical Association,Health Research Insights,Nashville,BCBS of Tennessee,reimbursements) The Tennessee Medical Association is suing Franklin, Tenn.-based Health Research Insights, which was working to take back reimbursements paid to physicians in several states, alleging fraud and asking ...
37. Former Georgia Hospital CEO Settles Lawsuit
(Matching tags: settlement,lawsuit,CEO,Georgia,Grady Memorial Hospital) Otis Story, former CEO of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, has settled a lawsuit with the hospital over his dismissal, which he says was orchestrated by another former CEO, Pamela Stephenson, so she ...
38. Former Georgia Hospital CEOs File Lawsuits Against Each Other
(Matching tags: lawsuit,CEO,Georgia,Grady Memorial Hospital) Two former CEOs of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta have filed lawsuits against one another, alleging job stealing and slander, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ...
39. Healthcare Providers and the Government
(Matching tags: lawsuit,HHS,Anna Timmerman,HIPPA,CVS) I. Summary/Conclusion HHS relied mainly on voluntary compliance measures to address HIPAA violations until approximately one year ago. Recent settlements between HHS and health care providers suggest, ...
40. Horizon Blue Cross Files Two Lawsuits Against New Jersey Hospitals for Out-of-Network, Fraudulent Billing Practices
(Matching tags: Horizon BCBSNJ,lawsuit,Bayonne Medical Center,Newton Medical Center) Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has filed two lawsuits against two separate hospitals over billing practices at the facilities, according Horizon news releases. ...

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