• Telemedicine owner to plead guilty in $110M equipment scheme

    The owner of two telemedicine companies has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a $110 million scheme involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment.  
  • 3 nurse degree scheme updates

    Fallout from Operation Nightingale — a coordinated scheme to sell more than 7,600 fake diplomas and transcripts to aspiring nurses — continues to unfold more than a year after 25 people were charged for their roles in running the scheme. 
  • Proposed bill could require the U of California to build medical school

    If passed, a new bill dubbed the "Grown Our Own" bill would require the University of California to construct a medical school in Kern County should "certain funding thresholds" be met.
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  • DME company to pay $25.5M to settle fraud allegations

    A durable medical equipment company with more than 700 locations nationwide agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle allegations it continued to bill federal healthcare programs for the rental of respiratory equipment when patients no longer needed or used the devices. 
  • Lawmakers eye new designation for safety net hospitals

    Two House lawmakers have introduced a bill that would establish an "essential health system" designation that would create more opportunities for safety net hospitals to receive federal funding. 
  • Transgender patient sues Colorado hospital for $1.5M over canceled surgery

    Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora ceased performing certain gender-affirming surgeries for patients 18 and older in July. Now, seven months later, a patient is suing the hospital over their canceled surgery, The Colorado Sun reported Feb. 14.
  • NYC Health + Hospitals sues social media giants over mental health crisis

    NYC Health + Hospitals is one of three plaintiffs in a lawsuit against TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube, alleging they have created a youth mental health crisis and seeking to recover related public health costs.
  • Quest Diagnostics settles allegations of improper disposal of medical waste, patient info

    Quest Diagnostics has reached a settlement after several California district attorneys filed a complaint against the diagnostics company for improper disposal of hazardous and medical waste and not properly protecting health information at its facilities statewide.
  • Congressman optimistic Medicare reimbursement cuts will be reversed

    Indiana Rep. Larry Bucshon, MD, told the American Hospital Association that Medicare reimbursement cuts could be at least partially reversed in Congress' next spending package, Roll Call reported Feb. 13. 
  • Feds target former CFO in alleged cardiac kickback scheme

    The Department of Justice has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Rick Nassenstein, former CFO, president and co-owner of Cardiac Imaging, which provides mobile cardiac positron emission tomography scans.
  • HCA files response to North Carolina's lawsuit

    HCA Healthcare has filed a motion with the North Carolina Business Court, asking it to dismiss claims from the North Carolina attorney general that the for-profit hospital operator violated its 2019 asset purchase agreement for Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System, according to local news outlets. 
  • Crozer Health withdraws residency accreditation lawsuit

    Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings, which owns Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health, has withdrawn its lawsuit against the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education after the organization removed Crozer-Chester Medical Center's surgical residency program's accreditation.
  • 2 years, $2B in allegedly fraudulent catheter orders

    CMS and the FBI are investigating an alleged catheter fraud scheme that is estimated to have cost Medicare about $2 billion in two years, The Washington Post reported Feb. 9.
  • Pennsylvania physician sentenced in patient death

    A Pennsylvania physician was sentenced to 22 years in prison for overprescribing controlled substances that resulted in the death of a patient.
  • Judge rules Harvard not responsible in stolen human remains case

    A Suffolk Superior Court judge has dismissed families' lawsuits against Boston-based Harvard Medical School related to its morgue scandal involving the theft of human remains from bodies donated for medical research, multiple media outlets reported.
  • Washington state lawmakers mull new hospital merger requirement

    The Washington State Senate has passed Senate Bill 5241, known as the Keep Our Care Act, which would add care access rules for hospital mergers. 
  • 12 recent health system lawsuits, settlements

    From an orthopedic practice suing to keep to Wisconsin hospitals opened past their planned closure date to a judge upholding $183M malpractice verdict against Penn Medicine, here are 12 lawsuits, settlements and legal developments Becker's has reported since Jan. 30: 
  • Ex-California hospital CEO pleads no contest in corruption case

    A former California hospital CEO has pleaded no contest to charges related to his time at Healthcare Conglomerate Associates, a hospital management firm based in Tulare, Calif.
  • Sutter hospital employee stabbed, man charged

    A 53-year-old man has been charged in connection with the stabbing of an employee at Sutter Health's Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, Calif., San Mateo County prosecutors said in a Feb. 9 media statement shared with Becker's.
  • Alleged Medicare catheter billing scam could cost $2B

    An alleged fraud scheme uncovered by the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations could be costing Medicare $2 billion, The Washington Post reported Feb. 9. 

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