A woman who took parental leave from her job as a nurse anesthetist at a Pennsylvania hospital has filed a federal lawsuit alleging her employer used COVID-19 pandemic-related layoffs as a pretext to fire her, according to Law360.
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A Louisiana man was charged with seven counts of healthcare fraud related to a scheme to falsely bill commercial and government insurers, the U.S. Justice Department said April 13.
An emergency room physician is collecting $26 million in a wrongful termination lawsuit against ER staffing company EmCare after originally being awarded $29 million in the case, according to KCUR.
A man was shot and killed in a police-involved shooting April 12 at Westerville, Ohio-based Mount Carmel St. Ann's, the hospital and police said in a joint statement to Becker's.
A federal judge shouldn't grant Cigna's motion to dismiss claims filed by a radiology lab that accuse the health insurer of wrongfully denying payment for COVID-19 services, the lab said April 6, according to Law 360.
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A laborers fund in Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against its health insurance administrator, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, claiming the insurer's pricing led to millions of dollars in overpayments to providers.
Nearly 200,000 bottles of acetaminophen in health kits distributed by Humana were recalled, though only 16,000 of the insurer's members actually received the kits, according to the FDA and Humana.
The California Attorney General's Office and five law firms that sued Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health alleging antitrust violations are seeking 32 percent, or $184 million, of the $575 million settlement that would end the litigation, according to Bloomberg Law.
From physicians suing UnitedHealthcare to a South Carolina urgent care network paying $22.5 million to resolve false claims allegations, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
Steward Health Care, a private hospital operator based in Dallas, and Aya Healthcare, a San Diego-based staffing firm, are suing each other over the costs of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Wall Street Journal.