A patient with a gun was shot by an off-duty officer May 12 at Methodist Northlake Hospital in Gary, Ind., ABC affiliate WLS reported May 13. The Gary Police Department told Becker’s one man sustained a gunshot wound during a…
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A hospital system that is part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare is requesting The Leapfrog Group reimburse nearly $10.5 million in legal fees connected to a 2025 lawsuit that questioned the methodology of Leapfrog’s hospital safety grades. In March, a federal…
Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital has agreed to pay more than $10 million and establish what federal and state officials described as the nation’s first clinic focused on care for patients seeking to detransition after receiving gender-related medical treatment as part…
A federal jury has found a 55-year-old Michigan nurse and home health agency owner guilty of committing Medicare fraud using patient records stolen from a Detroit hospital. Ruby Scott, of Farmington, Mich., was convicted May 14 of five counts of…
The Supreme Court ruled May 14 to allow providers of mifepristone, an FDA-approved abortion drug, to continue shipping the medication as a Louisiana lawsuit returns to an appeals court. Mifepristone, which is used in a slight majority of U.S. abortions,…
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From the Oval Office to Congress, fraud has become one of the loudest rallying cries of the federal government’s healthcare agenda this year. Minnesota was an early target of the Trump administration’s healthcare fraud crackdown, but the scrutiny has since…
A Justice Department investigation has found the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., violated federal law by intentionally discriminating based on race in admissions. Five things to know: 1. The investigation by the department’s civil rights division found…
A federal judge in Rhode Island blocked the Justice Department from obtaining records related to minors who received gender-affirming care at Rhode Island Hospital, ruling the subpoena lacked a congressionally authorized purpose and violated patients’ constitutional privacy rights. In a…
Columbus-based OhioHealth is seeking the dismissal of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against the system, arguing the lawsuit is too vague to proceed and misreads how competition in healthcare markets actually works. Four things to know: 1. The Justice Department…
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law May 13 that enacts prior authorization reforms and prohibits insurers from penalizing providers for out-of-network referrals, according to the Iowa Hospital Association. Under the law, while initial prior authorization reviews can be…