A former respiratory therapist who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two Missouri hospital patients in the early 2000s has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, CBS affiliate KCTV reported Aug. 19.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
The Minnesota attorney general is launching an investigation into the billing practices of Minneapolis-based Allina Health following a New York Times article about the nonprofit system.
The program administrator for a behavioral health company was convicted of charges related to a Medicaid billing fraud scheme.
A group of Maine healthcare workers is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review its case regarding the state's COVID-19 shot mandate.
A Louisiana medical equipment company owner pleaded guilty to billing over $11 million in false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary devices.
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A Florida resident was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in an $11 million scheme to defraud Medicare by supplying fraudulent orders for durable medical equipment.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit issued a ruling Aug. 15 upending parts of an Oklahoma law that was created to help smaller pharmacies gain customers, The Oklahoman reported Aug. 17.
Many health experts and clinicians have voiced concerns about the potential harms of a new Florida law that requires hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status, though hospital leaders in the state have stayed quieter on the issue, KFF…
A physician and a pharmacist in Oklahoma pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter charges after a patient died in 2020 from an incorrect medication dose, according to court documents.
As the Supreme Court considers a case against the approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion, a federal court ruled Aug. 16 that the FDA had stretched too far in allowing the pill to be mail-ordered…