Richland County, S.C.-based Prisma Health mailed letters to 2,770 patients about a security incident that may have exposed their personal health information.
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Hundreds of patients' medical records were found near the trash outside of a New York City medical office building, according to NBC New York.
San Francisco-based Dignity Health will pay $570,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee, according to The Sacramento Bee.
A judge has ordered Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital to release a secret report that investigated instances of concurrent surgeries at the facility, according to The Boston Globe.
A Philadelphia-based pharmacy allegedly billed Medicare more than $1 million for prescriptions that were never filled or dispensed to patients, the U.S. Justice Department announced Sept. 23.
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Aetna is accusing North Carolina of unfairly awarding Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina a bid to help manage its new Medicaid program, according to local news station WRAL.
A judge dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed by Oscar Health against Florida Blue, which accused Florida Blue of using anticompetitive tactics to reel in members.
An Alabama hospital and one of its former executives are among a group of defendants who agreed to pay a combined $1.45 million to resolve false claims allegations, according to the Department of Justice.
From hospitals winning a challenge to site-neutral pay cuts to Walgreens settling a class-action lawsuit over ad restrictions, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
PainMD, a pain management company, received a court order Sept. 17 to preserve the medical records of its patients from several shuttered Tennessee clinics for at least one year, the Tennessean reports.