Promise Healthcare Group, a hospital and nursing home chain based in Boca Raton, Fla., is accusing its former CEO and a unit of Santa Ana, Calif.-based KPC Group of engaging in a "campaign of misinformation" that forced Promise to reduce…
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The Health Care Cost Institute, a nonprofit organization sharing and analyzing unidentified claims datasets, partnered with the intelligence arm of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, the companies said Nov. 12.
A former Royal Oak, Mich.-based Beaumont Hospital patient is suing the hospital and an affiliated cardiovascular group for wrongly accessing her medical records, which ended up being posted on social media, according to local ABC affiliate WXYZ.
Six former New York Police Department employees were charged Nov. 7 with bribery and conspiracy for engaging in medical insurance fraud related to 911 calls, according to The New York Times.
Philip Totonelly Jr., MD, has filed a lawsuit against Carmel, N.Y.-based Putnam Hospital Center, claiming the hospital and other defendants owe him $20 million for allegedly blocking his application for admitting privileges, according to Westfair Business.
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From Tenet Healthcare agreeing to pay $66 million to resolve a kickback lawsuit to NCH Healthcare System suing Leapfrog over a patient safety grade, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
Here are 10 lawsuits involving commercial and government payers posted by Becker's Hospital Review in the past month.
UnitedHealthcare is facing another lawsuit that alleges the health insurer discriminated against members who received mental health services, according to The Recorder.
A federal jury found a physician and two healthcare executives guilty of a $154 million healthcare fraud scheme in which they falsely told patients with long-term incurable diseases that they only had months to live in an effort to boost…
Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health have agreed to pay millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits related to the practice of double-booking surgeries, The Boston Globe reports.