Legal & Regulatory Issues

Centene Corp. and its subsidiaries underpaid a group of emergency room physicians who are part of TeamHealth, according to an Aug. 18 verdict.

The co-founder and former CEO of a drug and alcohol rehabilitation company in Pennsylvania was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice announced Aug. 17. 

Purdue Pharma is being sued for $2.15 trillion by 49 states, Washington, D.C., and various U.S. territories for its role in the opioid crisis, according to CNN.

The board that oversees Louisville, Ky.-based University Medical Center violated the open meetings law in June when it held a closed session to discuss the strategic plan for its downtown campus, the Kentucky attorney general found last week. 

Antitrust claims filed by Humana against Mallinckrodt over price hikes the pharmaceutical company made on an anti-inflammatory drug can advance, a federal judge said Aug. 14.

HHS signed a three-year, $6.3 million contract with Vienna, Virginia-based national security firm Aveshka Aug. 18, seeking to improve the federal agency's Section 508 compliance.

A federal judge Aug. 17 blocked HHS from rolling back protections for transgender patients under the ACA.

Two former employees of Jersey City (N.J.) Medical Center are charged with embezzlement and will be arraigned Aug. 19, according to the Department of Justice. 

UPMC secured its win in an antitrust lawsuit that accused the Pittsburgh-based health system of anticompetitive behavior in its workers' compensation cost business. 

Nine obstetricians and gynecologists say they were forced to leave Columbia, S.C.-based Prisma Health due to "deteriorating" care quality and persistent safety issues at the system's Baptist Hospital, according to an Aug. 14 legal filing cited by The State.