Anosh Ahmed, MD, former CFO and COO of Chicago-based Loretto Hospital, filed a June 9 motion to join co-defendants in seeking a dismissal of his federal indictment with prejudice for a COVID-19 testing fraud case. The indictment, filed in June…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
So far in 2026, Becker’s has covered four hospitals that were hit with an immediate jeopardy warning. An immediate jeopardy is a rare, serious situation for healthcare facilities, as it requires immediate corrective action and carries the risk of losing…
Cleveland-based Cleveland Clinic has agreed to pay $308,000 and commit $2 million toward care for patients seeking detransition-related services as part of agreements with the Justice Department and the Ohio attorney general’s office that include a decades-long commitment to stop…
A federal judge ruled June 8 that the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions is unlawful, vacating a policy that had led some hospitals to pause the petitions for foreign-trained physicians and other workers. Here are six…
HHS and the Education Department announced increased nutrition requirements in education, testing, training and residency. Here is what to know. 1. Eight of the nation’s leading accreditors, assessors and organizations have committed to increase nutritional education, including the National Board…
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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…
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…