San Antonio-based Laurel Ridge Treatment Center, a 330-bed behavioral health facility owned by King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, will lay off approximately 648 employees weeks after CMS terminated its Medicare provider agreement. CMS terminated the facility’s Medicare agreement…

Former hospital executive Yorai “Benny” Benzeevi, MD, surrendered his medical license effective May 7 following his conviction in a corruption case tied to Tulare (Calif.) Regional Medical Center, according to the state medical board. According to a Medical Board of…

The U.S. Court of International Trade has dealt the Trump administration a second major legal blow on tariffs, striking down the 10% global import surcharge imposed after the Supreme Court invalidated the president’s first round of levies in February.  The…

A departing senior Elevance Health executive is pushing back against demands from the Justice Department to depose him in a Medicare Advantage fraud lawsuit against the insurer that stretches back several years. On May 6, Elevance asked a New York…

Bellaire, Texas-based Harris Health System filed a lawsuit against Elevance’s Wellpoint Texas, formerly Amerigroup Texas, due to alleged payment failures for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, according to a March complaint. Harris Health began flagging payment delays in 2020. Following an escalation in 2021,…

As the Justice Department probes admissions policies at several medical schools, the department said May 6 a yearlong investigation has found evidence of UCLA’s medical school discriminating on the basis of race.  In a seven-page public report, the Justice Department…

The Tallahassee Branch of the NAACP has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the transfer of city-owned Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare assets to Florida State University, arguing the city violated state law in approving the deal. Spokespeople for Tallahassee Memorial…

Cincinnati-based Good Samaritan Hospital must pay $10 million after a jury on May 1 ruled against the hospital in the death of 69-year-old Terri Price. The jury found the hospital liable after Ms. Price was admitted to a psychiatric unit…

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health filed a lawsuit against Florida Blue and its HMO due to alleged underpayments for emergency department services, according to an April 7 state court complaint. Broward Health has been out of network for Florida Blue…

The California Hospital Association has filed a lawsuit against Anthem Blue Cross over a policy that would penalize hospitals when patients receive care from out-of-network physicians, even if the hospital is in network. The lawsuit, filed May 4 in Sacramento,…