From nurses suing a Georgia hospital to the former CIO of a New York health system alleging he was unjustly fired, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines.
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A man who allegedly hacked Pittsburgh-based UPMC's databases in 2014 and stole data from 65,000 employees was arrested this week and charged with conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
U.S. lawmakers are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate why a man who was missing for five weeks was found dead in a stairwell of a building on the campus of a VA hospital in Bedford, Mass.
Four nurses are suing Landmark Hospital of Athens, Ga., alleging the hospital intentionally manipulated COVID-19 test results to hide an outbreak at the facility, according to TV station WXIA.
The former CIO of Nuvance Health sued the health system and its top executives in New York federal court June 17, claiming he was unjustly fired last year.
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The medical staff of St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., filed a lawsuit June 16 against the hospital and its operator, San Francisco-based Dignity Health.
Two pension funds that own shares in Walmart filed a lawsuit against the company June 17, alleging that it knowingly allowed its pharmacies to illegally distribute opioids.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems alleging the company submitted hundreds of millions of dollars in false claims to HHS.
A California federal judge again refused to approve a deal requiring Dignity Health to pay as much as $747 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the San Francisco-based health system of underfunding its pension plan, according to Law360.
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission released its June 2020 Report to Congress, which included recommendations on dually eligible beneficiaries, the Medicare Savings Programs and coordination between Medicaid and Tricare.