The family of Patrice Wilson, a nurse who was kidnapped outside of Detroit Medical Center — where she was employed — and later found dead, is suing the hospital and Tenet Healthcare for $200 million, Fox 2 Detroit reported July…
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A Virginia pain clinic owner will pay $4 million in restitution for billing Medicare and Medicaid for non-medically necessary controlled substances.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is accusing Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare of discriminating against an employee and retaliating against him when the employee reported discrimination, according to a lawsuit.
The former CEO of a compounding pharmacy in Florida pleaded guilty in late July to lying to federal agents in a kickback case the business and a private equity firm settled in 2019 for $21 million, according to the Justice…
Four medical staffing and services companies agreed to pay $475,000 to settle allegations they submitted false claims to Medicare.
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A Florida physician was found guilty of 14 counts of unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and 5 counts of obstructing justice.
An administrative judge has reversed a decision by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to grant Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health a certificate of need for a freestanding emergency department, according to the Asheville Citizen Times.
Crystal McLin Lipe, RN, has pleaded guilty to obtaining fentanyl for personal use without authorization from the hospital she worked for in Texas, according to the Justice Department.
A judge denied Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare Health Services and ChristianaCare Health System's motion to dismiss a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress after its staff performed an autopsy on a fetus without consent, WDEL reported July 30.
Police are investigating after a 13-year-old girl was shot near the parking lot of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital in the early-morning hours of July 30.