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.
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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.
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…
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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.
Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tenn., agreed to settle False Claims Act allegations for $1.7 million, according to the Department of Justice.