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Pennsylvania nurse charged with assaulting 80-year-old patient
Pennsylvania's attorney general charged a nurse for neglecting and assaulting an 80-year-old nursing home patient. -
Pittsburgh lab owner ordered to pay $77M for kickback schemes
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. -
HCA settles nonpayment lawsuit
Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital and HCA Healthcare settled a nonpayment lawsuit, the Citizen Times reported Aug. 15. -
CMS 4201 Final Rule: Empowering Providers Against MA Denials
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. -
3-year manhunt ends: Authorities arrest man who allegedly posed as physician, sold fake COVID-19 'cure'
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. -
11 recent hospital lawsuits, settlements
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. -
Surgeon sues Maine hospital, alleging discrimination
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. -
North Carolina pharmacist sentenced to 2 years in prison for $4M Medicaid fraud scheme
A North Carolina pharmacy owner was sentenced to two years in prison for a $4 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers. -
St. Luke's accuses Ammon Bundy of avoiding lawsuit payment
Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System has filed a new lawsuit as it seeks to get the money a court ordered Ammon Bundy to pay in a lawsuit alleging harassment and intimidation against St. Luke's and its workers. -
Louisiana hospital reaches $1.2M overtime settlement
Donaldsonville, La.-based Prevost Memorial Hospital reached a settlement worth up to $1.16 million in a lawsuit accusing the hospital of not paying overtime for nurses, The Advocate reported Aug. 14. -
Physician charged with assaulting patients at NewYork Presbyterian hospital
Zhi Alan Cheng, MD, has been charged with sexually abusing three patients at New York-Presbyterian Queens hospital and raping three other patients in his home. -
NP pleads guilty for role in illegal opioid distribution
A nurse practitioner in Fort Ann, N.Y., has pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances outside of professional practice, according to an Aug. 11 news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York. -
Vanderbilt faces civil rights probe
After sharing patients' medical information with the state attorney general amid a probe into transgender care practices, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is now facing a civil rights investigation, the Los Angeles Times reported Aug. 11. -
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Purdue Pharma's $6B opioid settlement
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a national settlement with Purdue Pharma on Aug. 11 that would have shielded Sackler family owners from additional civil suits over the opioid epidemic and limited personal liability to $6 billion, The New York Times reported. -
Healthcare billing fraud: 12 recent cases
From 12 people sentenced for defrauding Blue Cross Blue Shield to a federally qualified health center settling improper billing allegations, here are 12 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's reported since July 27: -
'Like a mafia enforcer for insurers:' AdventHealth sues MultiPlan for alleged price fixing
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth is suing MultiPlan for an alleged ongoing conspiracy among commercial health insurers to reduce the reimbursement rates they pay to providers for out-of-network services. -
Federally qualified health center settles improper billing allegations
Bridgeport, Conn.-based federally qualified health center Optimus Health agreed to pay more than $470,000 to settle improper billing allegations. -
Lawmakers push IRS to probe nonprofit hospitals
Four senators sent a letter to the IRS and the Treasury inspector general for tax administration asking them to probe nonprofit hospitals' potential abuse of their tax-exempt status. -
Physician at Arkansas hospital faces 31 patient lawsuits
The number of lawsuits filed against former psychiatrist Brian Hyatt, MD, has grown to 31, 5 News Online reported Aug. 8. -
Maryland physician convicted in $15M fraud scheme
A federal jury convicted a Maryland physician on five counts of healthcare fraud for submitting more than $15 million in false claims to Medicare and a commercial insurer.
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