The Minnesota attorney general is launching an investigation into the billing practices of Minneapolis-based Allina Health following a New York Times article about the nonprofit system.

The program administrator for a behavioral health company was convicted of charges related to a Medicaid billing fraud scheme. 

A group of Maine healthcare workers is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review its case regarding the state's COVID-19 shot mandate.

A Louisiana medical equipment company owner pleaded guilty to billing over $11 million in false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary devices. 

A Florida resident was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in an $11 million scheme to defraud Medicare by supplying fraudulent orders for durable medical equipment. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit issued a ruling Aug. 15 upending parts of an Oklahoma law that was created to help smaller pharmacies gain customers, The Oklahoman reported Aug. 17.

Many health experts and clinicians have voiced concerns about the potential harms of a new Florida law that requires hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status, though hospital leaders in the state have stayed quieter on the issue, KFF Health News reported Aug. 17. 

A physician and a pharmacist in Oklahoma pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter charges after a patient died in 2020 from an incorrect medication dose, according to court documents.

As the Supreme Court considers a case against the approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion, a federal court ruled Aug. 16 that the FDA had stretched too far in allowing the pill to be mail-ordered and for it to be used in the first 10 weeks of gestation.

The former marketing director of a New Jersey hospital who was arrested last year after police found more than three dozen guns hidden inside an unlocked closet at the hospital has entered a pretrial diversion program, according to the Hudson County prosecutor's office. 

Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Air Methods Corporation will pay $1.05M to the federal government to settle allegations it did not return overpayments it received from Medicare, Tricare and Kentucky Medicaid. 

Five health systems in North Carolina filed nearly all of the state's hospital lawsuits against patients for unpaid bills, according to a Duke Law report.

Pennsylvania's attorney general charged a nurse for neglecting and assaulting an 80-year-old nursing home patient. 

A Pittsburgh man who owned two area laboratories was sentenced to 18 months in prison, ordered to forfeit $9 million and pay more than $77 million for his role in three kickback schemes. 

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital and HCA Healthcare settled a nonpayment lawsuit, the Citizen Times reported Aug. 15.

Navigating the ever-changing landscape of healthcare management, providers find themselves in an intricate dance with Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs). This relationship is often marked by frequent and often erroneous denials.

Federal agents have arrested a Utah man previously indicted for allegedly posing as a physician and selling a baseless COVID-19 cure, ending a three-year manhunt. 

From AdventHealth suing MultiPlan for alleged price fixing, to a Louisiana hospital reaching a settlement in an overtime wage lawsuit, here are 11 hospital lawsuits and settlements Becker's has reported since Aug. 3.  

A surgeon is suing Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and the hospital's chief of surgery over alleged discrimination she faced as a female, foreign-born physician, according to Bangor Daily News.  

A North Carolina pharmacy owner was sentenced to two years in prison for a $4 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.