After Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes filed a motion last month to get patient-related felony charges dismissed in her indictment, federal prosecutors filed a response detailing allegations of inaccurate test results and the harm they caused those patients, reports The Mercury…
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Some presidential candidates argue that healthcare reforms like "Medicare for All" will limit consumers' choice when it comes to health plans. In an op-ed for The New York Times, a former communications leader with Cigna argues the "choice" talking point…
A Cigna subsidiary in Texas filed a lawsuit that alleges three dissolved clinics, their owner, a manager and managing physicians defrauded the health insurer through a billing scheme.
Tennessee residents suing Ballad Health for an anticompetitive board structure appealed a judge's decision to dismiss the case, the Bristol Herald Courier reports.
A protest that began in May 2019 at Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, Tenn., is winding down as participants refocus their energy into a grassroots movement to create a hospital authority, local News Channel 11 WJHL reports.
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The Justice Department called on the Supreme Court Jan. 13 to lift a nationwide block on the "public charge" rule, which would allow the administration to begin denying immigrants green cards if they have used public benefits like Medicaid, The…
A former nurse at two Utah hospitals was sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing opioids and infecting at least seven patients with hepatitis C, according to The Salt Lake City Tribune.
The Trump administration said the latest legal challenge to the ACA can wait.
Federal prosecutors accused an Arkansas physician and a medical sales representative of participating in a scheme to defraud Tricare, the U.S. military health insurer, according to The Sentinel-Record.
An appeals court on Jan. 8 affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit seeking unpaid medical malpractice awards from a South Carolina hospital, according to Bloomberg Law.