Legal & Regulatory Issues

The Supreme Court ruled to keep mifepristone's approval intact as litigation seeking to revoke the FDA-approved abortion pill continues to play out in lower courts. 

A Florida nursing home employee was charged with shooting her co-worker in the facility's parking lot, a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office news release said.

Gulfport, Miss.-based Memorial Hospital is suing Wiggins (Miss.) Acute Care Hospital for $453,127 concerning payment of new air conditioning units put in at Wiggins-based Stone County Hospital and a medical clinic, the Sun Herald reported April 21.

A Florida chiropractor and surgeon who were convicted in a $31 million scheme to defraud Medicare have been sentenced to prison. 

Delta (Colo.) County Memorial Hospital, also known as Delta Health, will settle a collective action lawsuit alleging the hospital did not compensate for off-the-clock work performed by hourly staff, according to court documents accessed by Becker's.

Three nurses have been charged in Brooklyn, N.Y., in connection with a scheme to distribute more than 2,600 fake COVID-19 vaccination record cards, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced April 20. 

A bill that seeks to expand the range of practice for nurse practitioners and physician assistants has been reintroduced to Congress after not passing in the last session in late 2022. The scope of it aims to bring accessible care…

The Justice Department is charging 18 defendants in separate COVID-19-related fraud schemes, in the largest coordinated law enforcement action targeting COVID-19 healthcare fraud to date. 

Fairfax, Va.-based 1st Adult & Pediatrics Healthcare Services agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.

Theresa Pickering, 55, has not been a licensed physician assistant since 2014, but this is now the second time she has been charged and convicted for practicing as one in the last eight years.