A Philadelphia-based healthcare staffing company will pay $9.3 million in back wages and liquidated damages for 1,756 employees to resolve allegations it misclassified workers and willfully denied their overtime pay, the Labor Department announced Sept. 27.

Healthcare providers are "putting their eggs in one basket," in hopes of challenging the No Surprises Act's dispute resolution process, Bloomberg Law reported Sept. 27. 

Sioux City, Iowa-based MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center was cited for failing to develop and implement a system to track staff's COVID-19 vaccinations and exemptions, according to Iowa Department of Inspection and Appeals obtained by the Sioux City Journal. 

Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health System has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle allegations it overbilled Medicaid between January 2017 and March 2021. 

A 28-year-old patient died Sept. 20 after being found unconscious at a psychiatric hospital in New York City. The city's coroner's office has ruled the death as a homicide, according to The New York Times.

A San Mateo, Calif.-based assisted living facility is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a second resident died from being served dishwashing liquid, Mercury News reported Sept. 24.

The former CEO of a Louisiana-based federally qualified health center has been convicted in a $1.8 million Medicaid fraud scheme. 

A Pennsylvania appeals court on Sept. 22 overturned an injunction that required a Pittsburgh-based UPMC hospital to administer ivermectin to a COVID-19 patient, court documents show. 

A former Philadelphia VA hospital employee was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing more than $487,000 from the hospital.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that abortion was not a constitutional right, reversing the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and giving individual states the authority to regulate access to…