Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems began notifying patients on April 23 that their protected health information may have been exposed after a March 3 tornado struck the building where up to 2,500 medical records were being stored.
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Steward Health Care must pay $10.2 million to a scientist who lost her lab after a series of actions taken by the Dallas-based hospital operator, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled April 28.
A physician in Pennsylvania has been arrested and charged in connection with the 2018 death of a patient who overdosed on a combination of drugs he allegedly prescribed, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced April 24.
The federal government owes health insurers $12 billion in payments from the ACA's risk corridors program, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled April 27, according to Politico.
The operator of two Georgia-based telemedicine companies has been charged in a $60 million fraud scheme.
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Centra Health and Blue Ridge Ear, Nose, Throat and Plastic Surgery, both in Lynchburg, Va., agreed to pay $9.3 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and state fraud laws, the Department of Justice said April…
From a Tennessee hospital settling false billing allegations to a nurses union suing New York hospitals alleging dangerous working conditions, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
KPMD was ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution for defrauding the government incentive program to implement EHRs.
A California physician has been arrested and charged with fraud for allegedly selling a "100%" cure for COVID-19, according to the Department of Justice.
The parents of a hospitalized infant filed a lawsuit against Seattle Children's Hospital April 14, claiming negligence after their son's heart was infected with mold at the hospital, The Seattle Times reports.