Legal & Regulatory Issues

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that Gov. Tim Walz's COVID-19 mask mandate was within his authority, the Star Tribune reported July 10. 

An Oregon OB-GYN has lost his medical license as part of an agreement with the state medical board over alleged sexual misconduct, according to Salem Reporter. 

The owner and manager of a New York City pharmacy were charged in a Medicaid fraud scheme that billed a managed care provider for drugs illegally obtained or never purchased. 

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is facing a federal civil rights investigation over the treatment of Black women who give birth there, the Los Angeles Times reported July 11.

A Virginia woman was sentenced to 51 months in prison for housing Medicaid recipients in her personal home and billing Medicaid for care not provided to them. 

A 13-year-old boy with autism has spent nearly four weeks in the emergency department at UCHealth Long Peaks Hospital in Longmont, Colo., after being abandoned there by his father, CBS Colorado reported July 10. 

Behavioral health provider Health Connect America agreed to pay $4.6 million to resolve allegations it billed Virginia Medicaid for services that were not provided. 

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice has filed a federal lawsuit against CMS and HHS challenging the validity of a change in Medicare home health payment that reduced rates by 3.9 percent in 2023, with more cuts expected…

A new Florida law requires all hospitals in the state accepting Medicaid to ask patients about their immigration status.

Two newborn girls were pronounced dead after being found in the bathroom of a child care center on Northwestern Medicine's campus in Chicago, CBS affiliate WBBM reported July 6.