The following investigations, lawsuits, settlements or other legal developments involving healthcare providers were reported within the past month, beginning with the most recent. Roseland Community Hospital Sued by Former ExecutivesRoseland Community Hospital in Chicago is being sued by three former…
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Brentwood, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners has been denied a certificate of need for a $19 million cancer center it had proposed to open with a replacement facility for Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital in Florence, Ala., according to a report from…
Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago is being sued by three former executives claiming the hospital violated the terms of the executives' separation agreements, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.
Bozeman (Mont.) Deaconess Hospital is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who claims he was fired for being a whistle-blower, according to a Bozeman Daily Chronicle report.
Texas has recently enacted several laws aimed at reducing the physician shortage and improving the efficiency of care in the state, according to the Texas Medical Association. The legislature restored funding cut from graduate medical education in 2011 and increased…
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Wahiawa (Hawaii) General Hospital will pay $451,428 to settle two False Claims Act lawsuits, according to a Hawaii Reporter article.
Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce have asked Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "navigators" for information on how they plan to spend $67 million in federal grants, according to a letter obtained by Kaiser…
Medicare should eliminate a coverage rule requiring at least a three-day hospital inpatient stay for beneficiaries to qualify for follow-up nursing home coverage, former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, told The Boston Globe.
Current and former employees at three hospitals in central New York have agreed to settlements related to lawsuits that alleged the hospitals did not pay employees for "missed or interrupted" meal breaks, according to a Post-Standard report.
Emory University in Atlanta has agreed to a settlement of $1.5 million to resolve allegations of False Claims Act violations surrounding its clinical trial services.