A Black woman who sought medical assistance at Saint Luke's Community Hospital in Leawood, Kan., in May 2021 claims she was forcibly removed from the medical facility by Leawood police before receiving treatment for "excruciating" abdominal pain, according to a…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
House Bill 737, which would give more regulatory oversight in planned healthcare mergers and acquisitions, is back on the negotiating table in North Carolina, according to a May 22 report in the Winston-Salem Journal.
A former Fuquay-Varina, N.C. nurse was sentenced to 48 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for tampering with painkillers for surgery patients.
Former administrators at a New York City skilled-nursing facility will pay $3.46 million to settle allegations the facility switched residents' insurance, often without their full consent, and paid kickbacks to a hospital employee to recruit residents with original Medicare.
A former nurse at multiple hospitals was arrested May 16 on allegations of harassment and cyberstalking a man he met on a dating app, and harassing former coworkers.
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a Tenet Healthcare hospital in Alabama for allegedly violating federal disability laws by terminating an employee who had requested medical accommodation.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is now investigating Texas Children's Hospital in Houston — the second children's hospital in the state being probed on whether its providers are performing gender-transition procedures.
A federal judge ordered a Chicago physician and his wife to pay $3 million in civil damages and penalties after they were found guilty of receiving kickbacks from a home health agency as payment for Medicare patient referrals.
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Nashville, Tenn.-based TriStar Centennial Medical Center by Kathy Stark, the wife of a former patient at the facility who died in a fire caused by a defibrillator in November 2022, ABC affiliate…
KPC Promise Hospital may be evicted from the sixth floor of Merit Health River Region Hospital in Vicksburg, Miss. But the long-term acute care facility is not going quietly, its CEO says.