A former nurse at UPMC Carlisle (Pa.) faces criminal charges for allegedly secretly videotaping 206 patients, including nearly two-dozen minors, while he worked at the hospital, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a Dec. 18 news release.
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Nonprofit health insurers claimed Texas health officials violated state law by awarding multibillion-dollar Medicaid contracts to only for-profit payers, according to a lawsuit cited by The Texas Tribune.
The ACA's individual mandate to buy health insurance is unconstitutional, according to a Dec. 18 decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court did not issue an opinion on whether the entire law is therefore unconstitutional, instead sending…
Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System's former attorney recently added allegations of sexual harassment to a wrongful termination lawsuit filed earlier this year, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., has entered into a settlement with the federal government to resolve the allegation that it submitted claims for medically unnecessary testing to Medicare and Medicaid, according to the Department of Justice.
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A ruling from an Ohio appeals court earlier this month will allow dozens of wrongful death cases against a physician and an Ohio health system to move forward, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
CMS declared a special enrollment period for some seniors living in areas where severe weather added technical issues to the sign-up process.
From a nurse suing a Pennsylvania hospital over its flu shot policy to a health system paying $6 million to settle a data breach lawsuit, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
The following hospital lawsuits were reported in the past month, beginning with the most recent.
A physician was sentenced to four years in prison Dec. 11 for his role in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and New York's Medicaid program, according to the Department of Justice.