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…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
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…
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Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare, accusing the insurer of retaining more than $100 million in fraudulent Medicaid payments. The May 29 complaint, filed in a state court, focuses on UnitedHealthcare’s role as a contractor for “Senior Care Options,” a state program…
Tampa, Fla.-based Oglethorpe — an operator of psychiatric hospitals — and three of its executives agreed to pay $32 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by failing to return Medicare overpayments tied to psychiatric admissions at three Ohio…
The Federal Trade Commission is sharpening its focus on healthcare under the Trump administration, signaling increased scrutiny of hospital consolidation, certificate-of-need laws and other policies the agency has said may limit competition and drive up costs. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson…
The Trump administration has finalized an overhaul of the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process, establishing a centralized disputes gateway, creating a new federal payer registry, and reducing administrative fees. The final rule, issued jointly by HHS, the Labor…
In a lawsuit filed May 25, Sunil Hingorani, MD, PhD, director of Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Pancreatic Cancer Center of Excellence, accused UNMC and Nebraska Medicine of racial discrimination and retaliation. Here are five things to know regarding…