A federal jury has convicted a 63-year-old Pennsylvania man in connection with threats made against the CEO of Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital. Lawrence Brunn of Oakmont, Pa., was found guilty of cyber harassment and faces a maximum sentence of five…
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Lifepoint Corporate Services — affiliated with Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health — joined multi-district litigation by providers against MultiPlan, now Claritev, and insurers for allegedly driving underpayments. Lifepoint’s complaint, filed June 2 in an Illinois federal court, targets Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield…
A coalition of cities, physicians and small businesses are challenging recently finalized changes to the ACA marketplace they argue will cause at least 3 million people to lose health coverage, marking the latest in a series of legal challenges to…
More than three years after federal agents exposed a scheme that sold thousands of fake nursing credentials, the last contested case is before a jury — and for the first time, prosecutors are tying the fraud scheme to a patient’s…
The Trump administration, through the Office of the United States Trade Representative, has proposed additional duties on products from 60 economies after alleging they failed to impose or effectively enforce prohibitions on goods produced with forced labor. USTR said it…
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New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has filed a lawsuit against GE HealthCare, claiming the company infringed its patents for imaging technology. Memorial Sloan Kettering alleges that GE HealthCare’s “MotionFree” technology built into several of its PET/CT scanner…
The New York state attorney general’s office is investigating Nassau University Medical Center, a public safety-net hospital in East Meadow, N.Y., a spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. The spokesperson declined to share additional details, including when the inquiry began or what…
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes accused healthcare data company MultiPlan, rebranded as Claritev, and eight health insurers of a price-fixing scheme. The complaint, filed in state court, alleged MultiPlan — along with Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Elevance Health, Health Care Service Corp., Centene and Molina…
Illinois lawmakers have passed legislation that would allow patients to shield information about abortion services and gender dysphoria diagnoses from portions of their digital medical records. The Reproductive Health Privacy Act was passed by the Senate on May 30 and…
Hundreds of hospitals use AI tools to identify drug diversion in their respective facilities, but a recent case at a Tennessee hospital highlights some of the shortcomings of this system, CBS News reported June 1. Here are four things to…