The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed two lawsuits against New Lenox, Ill.-based Silver Cross Hospital, alleging the facility violated federal law when it fired two workers who did not comply with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate in 2021. The lawsuits,…
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State investigators found Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital was operating a “makeshift” emergency department that did not have proper resources or staffing to care for patients days before CMS terminated the hospital’s participation in the Medicare program, according to a July…
Sixteen states and Washington, D.C., filed suit against President Donald Trump and the Justice Department on Aug. 1, alleging the Trump administration has illegally blocked necessary medical care for transgender minors. The lawsuit cites Mr. Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order…
Effective Jan. 1, patients will be able to pay for concierge primary care models through tax-deductible health savings accounts due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The legislation, signed into law July 4, will allow people with high-deductible health…
Dogwood Health Trust, the compliance monitor overseeing Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s purchase of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, said HCA might be in noncompliance with its acquisition agreement. In a July 29 certified letter, Dogwood said it had identified three instances…
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On July 2, 2025, Becker’s Hospital Review published an article titled “5 nursing home, hospice operators charged in federal crackdown,” which referenced a group of individuals charged with fraudulent Medicare billing activities. In that article, we mistakenly stated that these…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee said July 29 they are investigating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. Acting as…
The White House has reversed a short-lived directive for the National Institutes of Health to halt funding for new research grants — a move that would have paused nearly $15 billion in federal funds that support health research, according to…
A federal jury convicted a nurse practitioner for her role in a $12.1 scheme to defraud Medicare by ordering medically unnecessary cancer genetic tests for hundreds of patients she never met or examined. What happened?
The North Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily halted a state appellate court ruling in an escalating certificate-of-need dispute between Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health and Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, underscoring a fierce competition to expand in Western North Carolina, according to…