Wakefield, R.I.-based South County Health has filed a lawsuit against a former employee and a group that has alleged mismanagement on the part of the hospital, claiming they interfered with the hospital's expected donations.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will halt almost all lawsuits to collect medical debt after entering into a legal settlement with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, according to the Star Tribune.
A man was sentenced March 10 in connection with a 2022 assault that left two employees injured at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C., according to local media outlets.
A physician from Slidell, La., was charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to bill Medicare for unnecessary cancer genetic tests.
A licensed paramedic who falsely identified as a physician pleaded guilty in federal court to making false statements related to healthcare matters.
Advertisement
NES Health, a physician-led staffing firm, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, marking the official collapse of the company after months of financial turmoil that left emergency department physicians at numerous hospitals across the nation unpaid.
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit to block private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings from acquiring Surmodics, a medical technology company, arguing the deal would reduce competition for critical device coatings.
In the highest forfeiture secured by the Justice Department's health care fraud unit, a federal court ordered a Texas pharmacist to forfeit $405 million in assets tied to fraud and money laundering schemes.
A former nurse at HCA's Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond, Va., is now facing eight counts of abuse and malicious wounding after several infants in the hospital's neonatal ICU were found with unexplained fractures while under her care, according to…
Two crew members who worked for the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the pilot were killed March 10 in an AirCare helicopter crash in northern Madison County, outside Jackson, hospital officials said in a statement.