A former executive at Cerebral claims he was fired in part for raising concerns about prescribing practices at the telepsychiatry company, The Wall Street Journal reported April 29.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
A group of emergency room physicians filed a lawsuit in March alleging representatives for their employer, American Physician Partners, discouraged them from testing for COVID-19 and pressured them to work while ill, according to the Houston Chronicle.
California healthcare, legal and consumer advocates have agreed on legislation increasing the cap on monetary awards for medical malpractice lawsuits, CalMatters reported April 27.
A Texarkana, Texas-based air ambulance company is suing HHS and other federal agencies over the No Surprises Act.
A California physician was sentenced to 93 months in prison April 28 after being convicted of a $12 million Medicare fraud scheme and reusing single-use catheters on patients.
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A former Yale New Haven Health Systems payroll worker admitted April 27 to her role in an embezzlement scheme that defrauded more than $100,000 from the health system.
From Tenet Healthcare suing the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to hospitals suing HHS over a Medicare billing calculation, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines.
A New York physician agreed to pay $564,217 to resolve allegations of submitting false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department said April 27.
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has filed a lawsuit to prevent the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration from inspecting the Hospitals of Providence Transmountain location in El Paso, Texas, to determine whether workers there are vaccinated against COVID-19 in compliance…
As we look to the future of healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI) can impact every aspect from care delivery to pharmaceutical operations to organizational operations, and we expect to see rapid advancements in these technologies over the next few years. AI…