The Fresno Bee editorial board is supporting California AB 412, a bill that would provide loans to reopen the shuttered Madera County (Calif.) Hospital, in an April 17 opinion piece.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
From a union suing a California hospital for allegedly laying off workers to avoid a minimum wage law, to a former physician acquitted in the death of 14 patients suing Trinity Health for malicious prosecution, here are eight hospital lawsuits…
A grand jury indicted a pharmacy student and a licensed pharmacist in Louisiana April 12 on allegations the two conspired to sell controlled substances used for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
A Florida nurse has pleaded guilty to replacing fentanyl with saline in nearly 450 vials.
The Supreme Court will decide if pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicare and Medicaid, in a case that could weaken the False Claims Act, NPR reported April 17.
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Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., is suing Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey over his demand for records and testimony on gender-affirming care, The Kansas City Star reported.
A former employee of Adena Health System in Chillicothe, Ohio, pleaded guilty to telecommunications harassment in a case centered on comments made online calling for the murder of the system's CEO and wife.
Texas physician James Don Jackson, MD, and eight others including three pharmacy owners, two pharmacists and three patient recruiters, were sentenced for their roles in a $126 million compounding pharmacy fraud scheme designed to bilk workers' compensation programs and Tricare,…
On April 14, Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. ordered mifepristone to remain available for at least another five days as the Supreme Court mulls the case.
A cardiothoracic surgeon who formerly served as an executive at Macon, Ga.-based Navicent Health was awarded more $5 million after a jury found he was forced out of his position, Fox and ABC affiliate WGXA reported April 14.