Legal & Regulatory Issues

From a jury awarding nearly $183 million to a family who filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, to a Colorado hospital agreeing to settle a lawsuit alleging it did not compensate for off-the-clock…

Minnesota fined CVS Caremark $500,000 May 1 after accusing CVS' pharmacy benefit manager of steering patients to its own locations. 

A group of former employees of St. Charles Health System have filed a lawsuit alleging the Bend, Ore.-based health system's COVID-19 vaccine requirement violated their religious freedom rights, The Bulletin reported May 3. 

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law May 2 preventing nonphysicians from using specialty titles such as "doctor," in an effort to promote transparency for patients.

Three nurses who say they legitimately earned their nursing degrees from one of the three now-shuttered Florida schools involved in Operation Nightingale are fighting to keep their licenses, according to their attorney.

Two pharmacy owners in New York were indicted May 2 for their alleged participation in a $29 million scheme involving false prescription drug claims to Medicare and Medicaid, kickbacks and bribes, and laundered proceeds. 

This episode features Jakob Emerson, Insurance Editor at Becker's Healthcare. Here, he discusses some key takeaways from speaking with Mark Cuban at the Becker’s Hospital Review 13th Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Two New Jersey physicians and their Montclair-based medical practice agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations they billed Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary procedures. 

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against a Trinity Health hospital in Michigan for allegedly violating federal religious laws by rescinding an employment offer because the person refused to get a flu shot. 

A California plastic surgeon will pay $23.9 million to settle allegations his practice submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid.