Washington, D.C.-based St. Elizabeths Hospital settled a federal class-action lawsuit over the hospital's mishandling of its October 2019 water crisis and 2020 COVID-19 procedures, DCist reported Feb. 14.
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A Taunton, Mass.-based mental health provider and two of its former owners have agreed to pay $940,000 to settle allegations they submitted fraudulent claims to the state's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program.
New Orleans-based LCMC Health and Shreveport, La.-based Willis-Knighton Health System have been accused of using a tracking code in their websites that shares sensitive patient data without patients' knowledge or consent.
From a judge dismissing a physician's defamation case against Houston Methodist Hospital, to a judge ordering Northern Light Mercy Hospital to pay the parents of a man who died from Lyme disease, here are nine hospital lawsuits and settlements Becker's…
Florida Cardiology, P.A. and 10 physicians have agreed to pay $2 million to settle allegations they submitted inflated claims and for billing while the physicians were out of the country.
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Rural hospitals around the U.S. are facing a financial crunch, and some states are proposing legislation to attempt to fix the problem.
The Connecticut Supreme Court is hearing a case of a woman who died of a heart attack while waiting on the results of a COVID-19 test in March 2020. The court will determine whether hospital immunity granted by the state…
Two people recently filed suit against Walmart and three pharmaceutical companies over the sale of eye drops that the CDC has linked to one death and five cases of blindness.
A 28-year-old man was arrested after allegedly bringing a gun into Peterborough, N.H.-based Monadnock Community Hospital, the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript reported Feb. 11.
Martin Shkreli asked a federal judge to not hold him in contempt for failing to provide the Federal Trade Commission with information requested to determine whether he has violated a lifelong ban from working in the drug industry, according to…