Legal & Regulatory Issues

The trial for Nathan Sutherland, the former Hacienda Healthcare nurse accused of raping and impregnating a patient in a vegetative state, has been postponed until April 30, reports The Arizona Republic.

Alongside 10 other grants of clemency, President Donald Trump commuted the sentence Feb. 18 of a woman convicted for her involvement in a record-breaking $200 million mental health fraud scheme.

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an employee who was fired from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for not getting the flu vaccine was not discriminated against due to her religion, according to PennLive.com.

Federal prosecutors claim a Florida physician who had ambitions to become the president of Ghana took $26 million from Medicare, Medicaid and other insurers for phony services, according to ABC News.

Pathology professor Norman Ende, MD, filed an age discrimination lawsuit Feb. 7 against Newark-based Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, according to The Courier News.

The former director of Blue Shield of California filed a lawsuit against the state claiming that regulators are being too lax when it comes to guarding charitable assets, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

A 12-year-old girl was found unharmed after her grandmother allegedly abducted her from Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans at gunpoint, according to CNN.

RevSpring advises legal counsel to understand how your organization's patient communication strategy may be affected by the TRACED Act.  

The former owner and manager of a hospital in Mississippi is defending millions in income during a trial concerning allegations of Medicare fraud, according to the SunHerald.

The founder and CEO of Americore Health, which owns and operates hospitals in three states, is refusing to answer questions from creditors in his company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, according to the Ellwood City Ledger.