Legal & Regulatory Issues

A nurse accused St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare of delaying her start date and withdrawing a job offer because she is deaf, according to court documents filed in late October. 

A teenager is facing charges after police said she hit three employees in Jacksonville (Ill.) Memorial Hospital on Nov. 7, according to a report from the Journal Courier. 

Lawyers representing investors who may have lost significant money over the way a $375 million deal was presented by Medical Properties Trust are encouraging such investors to submit their losses, according to a Nov. 8 InvestorsObserver report.

The Senate Finance Committee on Nov. 8 voted to advance a healthcare package that would eliminate two years of Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts and rein in what Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon called "shadowy tactics by pharmacy benefit…

This episode features Alan Condon, Editor-in-Chief at Becker's Healthcare. Here, he discusses Spring Valley, Ill.-based St. Margaret's Health set to close June 16th and Tenet, HCA, Optum competing for market share in the ASC space.

A Michigan man who pleaded guilty to second degree murder of a nurse was sentenced to 35 to 60 years in prison, CBS News reported Nov. 7.

A California law will go into effect Jan. 1 that will prevent surprise out-of-network bills for ground ambulance rides, KFF Health News reported Nov. 7. 

The Health Resources and Services Administration's definition of who qualifies as a patient under the 340B drug pricing program is too narrowly defined, a federal judge ruled Nov. 7.

Flagstaff, Ariz., voters rejected an $800 million plan that would have had Flagstaff-based Northern Arizona Healthcare move its downtown campus seven miles south, local news outlet CBS 5  reported Nov. 7.

In the last month, the offices of the state attorneys general in Tennessee, North Carolina and Connecticut have scrutinized health systems over various concerns, including care quality and access, the potential violation of an asset purchase agreement and questionable financial…