Two former employees of Newton Square, Pa.-based Catholic Health East have filed a federal lawsuit, claiming the system wrongfully uses its "church plan" pension status and that the system's pension plans are underfunded by more than $438 million, according to…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
The following provider lawsuits, settlements or legal developments were reported within the past six weeks, beginning with the most recent.
HHS released specifics of its increased Federal Medical Assistance Program rates for newly eligible Medicaid beneficiaries in states that expand the program under the optional provision of the health law in a final rule issued by the agency.
The FDA issued a recall for Spacelabs Medical’s Spacelabs Anesthesia Workstations and Service Kits that provide oxygen, air and nitrous oxide through patient breathing circuits.
The Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint against Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System over its acquisition of a medical group has been unsealed, according to a Magic Valley Times-News report.
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A federal judge has dismissed a false claims lawsuit against Naples, Fla.-based Physicians Regional Healthcare System, ruling that the complaint lacked allegations that rose above a "speculative level," according to a Naples Daily News report.
Two North Carolina lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require hospitals and outpatient surgery centers to disclose all costs associated with the 50 most common procedures performed at their facilities, according to a News & Observer report.
The Regents of the University of California, the university's governing body, has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that anesthesia was routinely administered at University of California-Irvine by healthcare providers when a supervisory anesthesiologist was not present, according…
The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a special fraud alert focused on specific attributes of physician-owned distributorships the agency believes "produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety."
Existing literature on strategies to manage scarce medical resources in a mass casualty event is largely inconclusive, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.