St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare filed a lawsuit over uneven floors in its new patient tower, a problem the health system said delayed construction by a year and cost "millions of dollars," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Lawyers for the Department of Justice are appealing a bankruptcy judge's decision to allow six health systems to buy Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital's residency programs, reports Philadelphia radio station WHYY.
A New Jersey physician implicated in a component of a $1.2 billion Medicare fraud pleaded guilty to criminal charges Sept. 12, according to the Department of Justice.
Philip Esformes, who operated a chain of skilled nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Florida, was sentenced Sept. 12 to 20 years in prison, according to the Miami Herald.
The Ohio State Medical Board plans to review physicians who worked with Richard Strauss, MD, who was accused of sexual abuse while working as a sports medicine physician at Ohio State University in Columbus, The Columbus Dispatch reports.
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A federal judge in Florida says a legal dispute between seven oncologists and Titusville, Fla.-based Parrish Medical Center was created by a third-party health system seeking market dominance: Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First, according to a report from USA Today affiliate…
A group of historians filed a court brief Sept. 12 asking that any settlement made between plaintiffs and defendants in the upcoming federal opioid trial include a requirement that all documents be kept and made public, according to STAT.
A former Iowa-based hospital occupational therapist was sentenced Sept. 9 to 14 months in federal prison for inappropriately accessing health records of at least 1,900 patients, The Courier reports.
Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care and Ciox Health, a medical records management company, agreed to pay $35.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the organizations overcharged for medical record requests, according to Top Class Actions.
Here are five healthcare organizations that entered into settlements to resolve billing fraud allegations in the past two months: