Legal & Regulatory Issues

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the latest ACA challenge, it put many Senate Republicans in a tough spot, according to The Hill. 

Houston-based Harris Health System began alerting 2,298 patients that their protected health information may have been exposed after multiple files of patient records were lost, according to local CBS affiliate KHOU.

The family of a veteran who died from improper insulin injections at Clarksburg, W.Va.-based Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center filed a lawsuit for damages March 2, according to the Weirton Daily Times.

Husband-and-wife physician partners Crispin Abarientos, MD, and Antonieta Abarientos, MD, agreed to pay $4.9 million to resolve false claims allegations involving fraudulent prescription claims and double-billing, according to the Justice Department.

Tufts Medical Center settled with the federal government to resolve a compliance review under the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to the Department of Justice.

Diversicare Health Services agreed to pay a $9.5 million settlement to resolve improper billing allegations for Medicare rehabilitation therapy services, according to the Department of Justice.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed at its Feb. 28 conference to hear the latest challenge to the ACA, according to the Supreme Court of the United States Blog.

A former Minnesota community hospital employee is accusing the hospital of firing her in retaliation for sharing concerns about the name of a brewery owned by the family of the former hospital CEO, reports The Free Press.

Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital terminated the employment of a longtime physician last month for failing to follow the organization's opioid prescribing guidelines, reports the Sonoma Index-Tribune.

A whistleblower at HHS filed a complaint Feb. 26 alleging the agency sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, without protective gear or training for coronavirus infection control, according to The Washington…