Legal & Regulatory Issues

A hospital operating room supervisor threatened to fire an employee who was summoned for jury duty, prompting a North Carolina judge to order the supervisor to appear before him in court July 23, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital in Cincinnati quietly paid Neil Armstrong's family $6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit and avoid publicity after Mr. Armstrong died two weeks after a 2012 heart surgery at the facility, according to The New…

Stuart James, former chief information services operating officer at Sutter Health, claims the Sacramento, Calif.-based health system fired him after he reported management's failure to install backup EHR software that could have aided IT operations during Sutter's computer network outage in…

A federal appeals court ruled California nursing home residents may continue a lawsuit that accuses the state of not taking enough action to prevent patient dumping, reports The Sacramento Bee.

California received the largest amount of prescription painkillers between 2006 and 2012, with 8.1 billion pills distributed in the state over the six-year period, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data published by The Washington Post.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Comprehensive Pain Specialists, three of its principal owners, its former CEO and a chiropractor are accused of engaging in a false billing scheme that defrauded Medicare and Tennessee's Medicaid program of $25 million, according to the Department of…

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against former opioid distributor Miami-Luken and two of its former executives, according to The Washington Post. 

A federal judge ruled July 19 that the Trump administration's expansion of short-term health plans does not undercut the ACA, The Wall Street Journal reports. 

Here are the 18 Democratic presidential candidates who want to keep private insurance under any healthcare reform, according to The Washington Post.  

A podiatrist in New York was sentenced to one year and a day in prison July 19 for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice.