Legal & Regulatory Issues

A Pennsylvania surgeon has agreed to pay $4.25 million to resolve allegations related to kickbacks and false billing, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

One person is dead and another is in critical condition after an Oct. 2 shooting in the parking lot of Elmhurst (Ill.) Hospital, according to ABC 7 Chicago. 

A Virginia physician was sentenced Oct. 2 to 40 years in prison for illegally prescribing opioids and leading an interstate opioid drug distribution ring, according to The New York Times. 

Employees at Lewiston, Maine-based St. Mary's Regional Medical Center created a "wall of shame" that targeted patients with disabilities, according to an investigation by the Maine Human Rights Commission and cited by Bangor Daily News.

The Drug Enforcement Administration allowed drugmakers to substantially increase the number of opioids they produced each year even as the number of opioid-related overdoses in the U.S. grew, according to a review released Oct. 1 by the Office of the…

Patients of a shuttered Perryopolis, Pa.-based family medical practice can now regain access to their medical records with the help of the FBI, Trib Live reports.

David Byrns, the former CEO of Putnam County Memorial Hospital in Unionville, Mo., has been charged in a billing fraud scheme that came to light in 2017, according to The Kansas City Star.

The FDA and Drug Enforcement Administration sent joint letters to four online networks Sept. 30, warning each company to immediately stop illegally marketing opioids to Americans.  

Several drugmakers involved in the upcoming federal opioid trial are looking to settle their cases by participating in Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Rady Children's Hospital settled a civil suit in which the mother of a transgender boy alleged staff members violated federal discrimination laws by using female pronouns when referring to the patient, who killed himself six weeks later, reports NBC 7…