A Michigan woman pleaded guilty to using another person's identity to gain employment as a nurse and making false statements related to healthcare matters, a Nov. 7 Justice Department press release said.
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In response to a Louisiana woman's lawsuit, Novo Nordisk said "gastrointestinal events are well known side effects" of Ozempic and asked the court to dismiss the case, according to documents filed Nov. 3.
Rady Children's Hospital, based in San Diego, is facing a lawsuit alleging that the hospital secretly recorded a patient and her family to prove the child was suffering from abuse, KPBS reported Nov. 7.
An internal investigation ordered by Kettering (Ohio) Health has confirmed that former senior executives and board members spent funds inappropriately — and the health system is seeking repayment.
A Georgia physician has agreed to pay $225,000 to resolve allegations she billed government payers for office visits that were not as complex or as lengthy as she claimed.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey recently filed suit against the FDA and HHS for approving abortion pills to be shipped.
A nurse is suing a rehabilitation center for automatically deducting 30-minute meal breaks from her wage despite being routinely interrupted to care for patients, a Faruqi and Faruqi law firm press release said Nov. 1.
Minnesota hospitals are no longer allowed to collect debts from patients until they have screened them for charity care eligibility due to a new law that went into effect Nov. 1.
In a Nov. 3 request, former students of Stone Academy who are suing the closed Connecticut nursing school asked the Waterbury Connecticut Superior Court judge to consider a prejudgment remedy amount of $20 million.
The man accused of fatally shooting two workers inside Methodist Dallas Medical Center in October 2022 is set to be tried for capital murder this week, The Dallas Morning News reported Nov. 6.