A Forest Hill, Md.-based ambulance company will pay the U.S. $1.25 million to settle allegations of Medicare billing fraud, according to the U.S. Justice Department. 

From a kidney dialysis companying suing a hospital over alleged discrimination to a for-profit hospital operator seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over emergency room "cover charges," here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines.

A top Republican lawyer believes the Senate's surprise billing proposal may violate the First and Fifth Amendments, The Hill reports.

The medical director and two operators of a Houston medical clinic have been indicted on several charges related to their alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice.

A nurse who worked at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence, Mo., has been charged with raping a patient who had been given morphine and other narcotics for pain management.

Mediation is ongoing in a lawsuit against UPMC brought by a former physician seeking more than $225,000 in back pay after he was fired, according to the Penn Record.

The former CEO of the U.S. Pain Foundation, a nonprofit charity representing chronic pain victims, pleaded guilty this week to embezzling $1.5 million from the company, according to the Hartford Courant.

HCA Healthcare argues a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging the company and several of its hospitals bill patients an emergency room "cover charge" should be thrown out.

A federal jury found Samirkumar J. Shah, MD, guilty in a healthcare fraud scheme involving more than $13 million in insurance billings, according to the Department of Justice.

A Missouri man who pretended to be a nurse to secure jobs at several healthcare organizations was sentenced to prison June 12, according to the Department of Justice.

IBM and Cúram Software have agreed to pay $14.8 million to settle allegations that the companies made misrepresentations to Maryland officials as the state was awarding a contract to for its Health Insurance Exchange website and information technology platform.

From the Trump administration facing another major lawsuit over its "conscience protection" rule to a St. Louis-based health system settling a pension plan case, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.

A jury ruled June 11 that a hospital must pay a woman $300,000 after a physician on its staff improperly viewed her medical records, according to the Dothan Eagle. 

The Trump administration faces another major lawsuit over its "conscience protection" rule, which will allow healthcare workers to deny care based on religious beliefs beginning on July 22, according to a report from The Hill.

"Medicare for All," even if passed, would likely face a mountain of legal and constitutional challenges on the other side, Politico reports.

The Department of Justice is taking legal action against hospitals, health systems and technology companies for submitting false claims to Medicare and Medicaid pursuant to the Electronic Health Records Incentive Program, according to the National Law Review.

A federal judge has approved a $60 million settlement between St. Louis-based SSM Health and pension plan participants, according to Pensions & Investments.

Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, former president and COO of Theranos, plans to fight the criminal fraud charges against him, an attorney representing Mr. Balwani told CNBC on June 10.

A University of New Mexico Children's Hospital employee allegedly overdosed on drugs while watching over a 10-year-old patient in the hospital's psychiatric unit in May 2017, according to KRQE, which cited a recently filed lawsuit.

A jury found a 49-year-old man guilty of threatening hospital staff and causing a lockdown at UPMC Lititz (Pa.) in 2018, according to a WHTM news report.