From Kaiser Permanente settling false claims allegations to a Montana health system sued over an oncologist's sudden absence, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
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A federal judge on Nov. 18 dismissed a lawsuit filed in 2018 by former Swedish Health surgeon Johnny Delashaw Jr., MD, against The Seattle Times over an investigative series the newspaper published titled "Quantity of Care," according to The Seattle…
The following hospital lawsuits and settlements were reported in the past month, beginning with the most recent.
Judge Robert Drain approved Purdue Pharma's $8.3 billion settlement with the Department of Justice Nov. 17, nearly a month after the drugmaker agreed to plead guilty to three criminal counts, including federal anti-kickback law violation and conspiracy to defraud, ABC…
The owner of nine medical brace companies has pleaded guilty in federal court for his role in a Medicare scam that resulted in more than $1.2 billion in losses, according to Law360.
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Nearly a quarter of all claims for COVID-19 tests are coming from out-of-network providers, and the share of claims for tests with inflated prices has grown since this summer, according to a survey from the health insurance trade group America's Health…
The New York City Commission on Human Rights is investigating drug testing practices at Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian hospitals to determine if they disproportionately target Black and Latinx parents and infants.
The former director of security for a Georgia hospital has been sentenced to one year and six months in prison for fraudulently using hospital funds to acquire guns that he then sold for profit, the Department of Justice announced Nov.…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay nearly $6.4 million to resolve allegations that Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington submitted invalid diagnoses to Medicare for Medicare Advantage members, according to the Department of Justice.
Two people were killed in an explosion at the VA Medical Center in West Haven, Conn., on the morning of Nov. 13, according to TV station WFSB.