The U.S. government is working to create secure ways for vaccinated Americans to prove their inoculation status and begin their return to normalcy. However, questions remain about how these digital vaccine credentials will be developed, made accessible and used.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
A nurse in Indiana who is accused of removing the oxygen mask from a 72-year-old nursing home patient who died hours later has been charged with practicing medicine without a license, a felony, according to the IndyStar.
A woman who worked as a clinical lab scientist at Fresno-based Community Hospitals of Central California has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired for missing too much work while recovering from "long-haul" COVID-19, the Fresno Bee reported March 25.
Federal prosecutors have charged Missouri Rep. Tricia Derges, R-Christian County, for allegedly misleading local officials to secure a pandemic grant worth nearly $300,000, reports the Springfield News-Leader.
From health systems in New Jersey and Virginia suing insurance companies for allegedly failing to cover losses tied to the COVID-19 pandemic to a Washington health system blaming a billing vendor for bankruptcy, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits…
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A man who police say was in possession of several guns and improvised explosive devices was arrested March 25 at University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital in Lexington, reports the Louisville Courier Journal.
RWJBarnabas Health sued an insurance carrier for allegedly refusing to cover the West Orange, N.J.-based system's pandemic-related losses, according to NJ.com.
The University of Southern California in Los Angeles agreed to pay $1.1 billion to hundreds of patients who filed class-action lawsuits accusing a former student health gynecologist of repeated sexual abuse, according to The New York Times.
A 46-year-old man pleaded guilty March 23 to two counts of murder, admitting to causing the deaths of two people when he drove a vehicle into Diley Regional Medical Center in Canal Winchester, Ohio, in 2019, according to the Lancaster…
Thirty organizations representing patients and consumers issued a report urging people to avoid eight different health plans that don't have to follow ACA regulations.