Legal & Regulatory Issues

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau on Sept. 21 outlined proposals aiming to end "coercive debt collection tactics, clean up inaccurate data, and improve credit score predictiveness." 

American Physician Partners' descent into bankruptcy was expedited in part by the "problematic" implementation of the No Surprises Act, its chief restructuring officer said in a Sept. 19 court filing. 

A jury has awarded John Alonge, DDS, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, a $3.2 million verdict after he slipped and fell in an operating room at Saint Vincent Hospital in Erie, Pa., the Erie Times-News reported Sept. 18.

Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn., has settled a class action lawsuit nine years after they warned patients they could have a blood-borne disease as a result of hospital employees who reused insulin injection pens, CTPost reported Sept. 22.

A Florida nurse practitioner was convicted Sept. 20 in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme.

In a lawsuit filed Sept. 21 against U.S. Anesthesia Partners and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity firm, the Federal Trade Commission alleges that the two companies executed an anticompetitive scheme to consolidate anesthesiology practices in Texas, drive…

CMS on Sept. 21 directed certified independent dispute resolution entities to resume processing all single and bundled No Surprises Act disputes submitted on or before Aug. 3. 

Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health may be liable for up to $519 million in a case involving alleged double billing and unnecessarily expensive post-op treatment, a Sept. 20 Law360 report said.

St. Louis County Police Department officers are looking for a patient who escaped custody while receiving treatment at St. Louis-based Mercy Hospital South, Fox2 reported Sept. 20.

A former VCU Health employee charged in the fatal shooting of a colleague is claiming self defense, ABC affiliate WRIC reported Sept. 20.