Legal & Regulatory Issues

A Missouri home health owner was sentenced to five years in prison for a pair of fraud schemes, including defrauding the state's Medicaid program out of $1.2 million. 

As of June 23, 150 people have joined a class-action lawsuit against Boston-based Harvard University and the school's former morgue manager in a case related to stolen human remains, according to NBC Boston. 

Two senators unveiled a bill June 22 that, if passed, would authorize the president to negotiate with trade organizations and ensure a stronger medical supply chain. 

A Georgia physician could face more than $27 million in fines after a jury found he had violated the False Claims Act by submitting false diagnoses to Medicare, according to an article by law firm Husch Blackwell published by JD…

HCA Healthcare has been criticized for having only one oncologist on staff at its Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health operations.

After Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced June 20 it had turned over five years of medical records of patients who are minors and had received gender-affirming care at the hospital, the Tennessee attorney general's office on June 21 released a…

Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H., will pay $2 million to settle allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by failing to keep accurate records of controlled substances, including opioids.

Edward Calloway, former financial director for G.B. Cooley Hospital in Monroe, La., has been sentenced to 24 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for federal wire fraud. 

The state of Iowa will pay $5 million to settle allegations of medical negligence made against the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, The Gazette reported June 21.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Munster, Ind.-based Community Hospital and its operator Munster Medical Research Foundation Inc. for disability discrimination after it allegedly failed to accommodate a nurse who suffered a work injury.