1. Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network was ordered by a jury to pay $120 million to a patient and his family following delayed stroke care that resulted in brain damage.
2. Akram Boutros, MD, former CEO of Cleveland-based MetroHealth, filed a motion to withdraw his lawsuit against the hospital’s board due to health issues.
3. Four health systems in Oregon are seeking to resurrect a lawsuit in which they contend the state’s inadequate mental healthcare system is causing them to be overburdened with psychiatric patients whom they’re ill-equipped to care for.
4. Hazard, Ky.-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare and one of its cardiologists agreed to pay over $3 million to resolve allegations they submitted improper Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid claims for services not covered.
5. Washington University in St. Louis filed a lawsuit against Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, accusing him of violating HIPAA during an investigation into its youth transgender care center.
6. A court ruled in favor of a Michigan hospital that denied a nursing student’s request to bring her service dog on rotations.
