A lawsuit filed on behalf of the man accused of fatally shooting a DCH Health System nurse alleges the Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based system failed to provide emergency psychiatric care before the attack, a claim DCH disputes, saying the man never entered…

A North Carolina Senate committee endorsed a bill June 11 that would cap hospital CEO pay but removed a provision that could have affected a proposed health system combination. The North Carolina Senate Health Care Committee, chaired by Sen. Jim…

Healthcare has long been home to terminology debates that can look semantic on the surface, but industry experts argue there is something more consequential underneath. Calling a clinician a “provider” can spark an ethics debate. Calling a PA a “physician…

CMS said June 12 it seeks to shift the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program from guidance-based administration to codified regulation. Here is what hospital and health system leaders need to know. 1. The rule moves the program from guidance to…

Elevance Health is suing a former senior executive, alleging he violated a noncompete agreement when he joined Medicare Advantage insurer Alignment Healthcare weeks after resigning. The complaint was filed June 5 in an Indiana federal court and names Shane Hochradel,…

Federal prosecutors filed a June 11 emergency motion to dismiss an indictment with prejudice against two co-defendants in the COVID-19 testing fraud case connected to Anosh Ahmed, MD, former CFO and COO of Chicago-based Loretto Hospital.  The government’s emergency motion,…

From hospital staffing enforcement to pharmacy pricing and prior authorization reform, several healthcare-related laws are set to take effect July 1. Here are four new rules and laws to know: 1. Federal student loan caps for PA and CRNA programs…

On June 10, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said Sacramento-based University of California Davis School of Medicine discriminated based on race in its admissions process, the third such finding against a major medical school in two months. Five things…

From two health plan vendors agreeing to settle Medicare Advantage fraud allegations, to the conviction of a New York clinic owner in a $52 million scheme, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases that Becker’s reported on since May 19:…

I have practiced medicine for 24 years. I have watched patients recover, watched communities grow, and watched colleagues practice with pride in what they built. What I never expected to watch was Medicare pay me less than it costs to…