CNN is arguing that Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is exaggerating the burden of compliance with a subpoena the media company issued seeking information on a former HCA executive, according to the Nashville Post.
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A 71-year-old nurse was arrested Jan. 3 and charged with sexual assaulting a patient at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Fla., according to the Pensacola News Journal.
Twenty Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia want the U.S. Supreme Court, by the end of this term, to review a ruling that found the ACA's individual mandate unconstitutional.
Two physicians specializing in ophthalmology recently paid the federal government nearly $949,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act, according to the Department of Justice.
From a physician charged with murder suing an Ohio hospital for defamation to patients suing an Alabama health system after a ransomware attack, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
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The family of an incapacitated woman who was raped and gave birth at Phoenix-based Hacienda Healthcare in December 2018 is suing her physicians, their employers and the state of Arizona, reports 3TV and CBS 5 affiliate Arizona's Family.
State regulators are increasingly inspecting Christian cost-sharing ministries that aim to help members pay their medical bills but aren't required by law to cover members' claims, according to The New York Times.
A Chinese cancer researcher is being held without bail after stealing biological samples from Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with the intent to publish results in China, The New York Times reports.
Two health systems and a hospital agreed to pay a combined $164 million in 2019 to resolve allegations that they used a religious Employee Retirement Income Security Act exemption they weren't entitled to, according to Bloomberg Law.
William Husel, DO, who has been charged with 25 counts of murder, is suing Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System, its former CEO and its parent company for defamation, according to The Columbus Dispatch.