Legal & Regulatory Issues

A surgeon at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is suing the hospital for alleged retaliation, according to The Enquirer. 

More than three dozen Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to the U.S. attorney general asking him to consider filing criminal charges against Purdue Pharma executives and members of the Sackler family, STAT reported. 

Four Texas healthcare executives have been charged in a billing scheme that already resulted in a guilty plea from the former CEO of Palo Pinto General Hospital in Mineral Wells, Texas, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 

Hospitals suing HHS over a policy that will cut Medicare outpatient drug payments by nearly 30 percent at 340B hospitals failed to persuade a full appeals court to rehear the case, according to court documents published by Bloomberg Law. 

CMS approved Georgia's plan to partially expand Medicaid and add a work requirement to the program.

A nurse and two certified nursing assistants have been charged for negligence in relation to a patient death at a Colorado nursing home, according to CBS affiliate KKTV.

From a federal appeals court hearing arguments in a case over CMS' hospital price disclosure rule to a telehealth provider suing a competitor for alleged patent infringement, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines. 

Johnson & Johnson said Oct. 13 that it is adding $1 billion to the opioid settlement agreement it made with four states last year, bringing its total contribution to $5 billion.

Judges in Ohio have postponed two major opioid trials involving lawsuits that seek to penalize drugmakers and distributors for the opioid epidemic that has killed thousands of Ohioans during the last 20 years, according to Cleveland.com.

A physician in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Oct. 12 to involuntary manslaughter in the 2018 death of a patient who overdosed on a combination of drugs he prescribed, according to The Tribune-Democrat.