A woman faces charges after firing a gun inside a patient room at Baptist Health Louisville (Ky.), according to the Louisville Courier Journal. Police responded to the hospital about 5:30 a.m. Feb. 18 after receiving reports of shots fired. St.…
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Children’s Health System of Texas, claiming the Dallas-based system violated a state law banning the provision of gender transition-related care to minors and engaged in fraudulent practices to obtain Medicaid…
From an Ohio physician sentenced to prison for his role in a $14.5 million scheme to a Washington health system agreeing to pay $3.7 million to settle medically unnecessary surgery allegations, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud stories Becker’s has…
The owner and a senior executive of Vivature, a healthcare billing company, have pleaded guilty to their roles in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. What happened?
Alabama’s Senate is considering a bill that would require hospitals to publicly report physician hours in the emergency department. Senate Bill 297 would mandate hospitals to file public, quarterly reports on how many hours a week their ED has a…
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has vacated a final rule from the Federal Trade Commission that expanded premerger notification requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, which requires organizations to report large transactions to the…
The trustee overseeing litigation claims for bankrupt Dallas-based Steward Health Care System is suing five payers, alleging they owe the system’s former hospitals at least $56.9 million in unpaid claims. The trustee, Mark Kronfeld, filed the complaints Feb. 10 and…
A federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois granted a temporary restraining order Feb. 12 blocking the Trump administration from terminating more than $600 million in CDC-administered public health grants to California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota for 14 days.…
Four Democratic-led states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over plans to cut $602 million in CDC funding, following a directive from the Office of Management and Budget ordering the agency to rescind the grants. California, Colorado, Illinois…
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have introduced legislation that would prohibit companies from simultaneously owning a health insurer or pharmacy benefit manager and a medical provider or management services organization, and would require companies in violation to…