Lawyers have put on hold a proposal to bring all 24,500 communities across the U.S. into negotiations to reach a comprehensive national opioid settlement, according to Cleveland.com.
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A former Pittsburgh-based UPMC care coordinator was sentenced on June 25 to one year in federal prison after illegally accessing and disclosing 111 patients' records, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The American Medical Association filed a lawsuit June 25 to block enforcement of two North Dakota laws the physicians' group says "force physicians to violate their obligation to give honest and informed advice" about reproductive health.
The former CEO of Regional Medical Center in Manchester, Iowa, and the hospital's former system fund development director have been charged with first-degree theft, according to a Radio Iowa report.
Drexel University in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit June 21 to block American Academic Health System from closing Hahnemann University Hospital, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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A former pharmacy director of Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $4 million from the hospital, was sentenced June 24 to four years in prison, according to local NBC affiliate WOWT.
A Forest Hill, Md.-based ambulance company will pay the U.S. $1.25 million to settle allegations of Medicare billing fraud, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge led by health insurers seeking billions in government payments related to the ACA insurance exchanges, according to Politico.
From a kidney dialysis companying suing a hospital over alleged discrimination to a for-profit hospital operator seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over emergency room "cover charges," here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines.
A top Republican lawyer believes the Senate's surprise billing proposal may violate the First and Fifth Amendments, The Hill reports.