Tulare (Calif.) Regional Medical Center and its parent Tulare District Healthcare System have agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging they provided kickbacks to physicians in return for referrals, according to a report in The Fresno…
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Denis Cortese, MD, president and CEO of Mayo Clinic, has said that a public healthcare plan based upon Medicare will not be successful and called the Medicare model a "catastrophe," according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Health…
Bayonne (N.J.) Medical Center has filed a federal law suit against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, alleging the insurer of "intimidating" patients into leaving the hospital to avoid high medical bills, according to a report in The…
A group of former executives from Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif., is suing Tri-City Healthcare District, which operates the hospital, and four of its board members for wrongful firing and defamation for $7 million, according to a report in…
Michael Lippe, MD, has filed suit against Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.Y., alleging that the hospital violated his contract by hiring another company to deliver emergency care without notifying him, according to a report by the Journal News.
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Two executives from West Chester, Pa.-based Synthes USA pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of introducing adulterated medical devices into interstate commerce in connection with unauthorized clinical trials of Norian XR bone cement in 200 patients, according to a…
Two Texas nurses who filed a complaint about a physician's standard of practice were indicted on charges of the misuse of official information, according to a report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department plans to investigate four Blue Cross Blue Shield companies that operate within the state to determine if they participated in any unfair or anticompetitive trade practices, according to a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Florida Department of Health dismissed a complaint against Thomas Rodenberg, MD, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who was the anesthesiologist handling the care of a man who was paralyzed after outpatient surgery, according to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Lawsuits by former employees of a number of medical device makers allege that the companies paid kickbacks to cardiologists in order to encourage the physicians to use their products in surgery for heart-rhythm defects, according to a report by the…