A Delaware court May 11 tossed a False Claims Act case against TidalHealth Nanticoke Hospital, a 99-bed facility in Seaford, Del.

Thirty-two hospitals that operate in states that didn't expand Medicaid sued HHS in an attempt to adjust their Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments, according to court documents. 

Reta Mays, a former nursing assistant, was sentenced May 11 for murder and assault charges in the deaths of eight veterans at Clarksburg, W.Va.-based Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center.

The University of Miami agreed to pay $22 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by ordering medically unnecessary laboratory tests and submitting false claims through its laboratory and off-campus hospital-based facilities.  

From a Texas hospital filing an appeal to end life support of a toddler to Dignity Health's St. Joseph Hospital settling an improper billing case, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.

The former COO of Chehalis, Wash.-based Steck Medical Group has been charged for allegedly leading a 153-person hiking trip through the Grand Canyon National Park and charging fees to participate in October, according to a May 6 report by The Washington Post.

A former employee of Pittsburgh-based West Penn Hospital has pleaded guilty to using a hidden camera to film patients and employees, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. 

The federal government reached its 10th settlement concerning patient deaths at Clarksburg, W.Va.-based Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center, according to WVNews.

The Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita filed a lawsuit against two former executives, claiming they stole money from the facility and improperly used CARES Act funds, according to ABC affiliate KAKE and court documents.  

Dignity Health's St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and a surgical group on its campus agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations of improper billing, the U.S. Justice Department said May 5. 

A Texas Medicaid program has spent $24 million to keep a toddler alive at Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children's Medical Center, the hospital said in an April 16 appeal cited by The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Florida filed a lawsuit against HHS that seeks $97.6 million in Medicaid payments the state was denied, according to court documents.

The mountain of rules physicians, nurses and hospitals must follow in the U.S. consumes millions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars annually — and reform is needed, cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar, MD, argues in an essay published in The Wall Street Journal.

An Ohio nephrologist was arrested and charged with assault following a dispute with another physician about patient care at St. Elizabeth Boardman (Ohio) Hospital, part of Mercy Health, local CBS affiliate WKBN reported April 23.

From South Carolina's largest urgent care network paying $22.5 million to resolve billing fraud allegations to a dermatology clinic being hit with a false claims lawsuit, here are 11 cases that made headlines since March 1.

U.S. Justice Department prosecutors plan to retry a Florida healthcare executive who had his 20-year sentence commuted by former President Donald Trump last year, according to the Miami Herald. 

Four executives at a hospital management company based in Texas were sentenced for their roles in a $189 million healthcare fraud scheme, the U.S. Justice Department said April 23.

From University of Virginia Health dropping thousand of lawsuits against patients to Kaiser Permanente settling a discrimination case, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines. 

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed two lawsuits filed against Health First, an integrated health system based in Rockledge, Fla. 

Stomping out fraud in telehealth and ensuring nursing home resident safety are among the top 10 compliance priorities for the HHS' Office of the Inspector General in the coming year.