On July 2, 2025, Becker’s Hospital Review published an article titled “5 nursing home, hospice operators charged in federal crackdown,” which referenced a group of individuals charged with fraudulent Medicare billing activities. In that article, we mistakenly stated that these…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and other members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee said July 29 they are investigating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. Acting as…
The White House has reversed a short-lived directive for the National Institutes of Health to halt funding for new research grants — a move that would have paused nearly $15 billion in federal funds that support health research, according to…
A federal jury convicted a nurse practitioner for her role in a $12.1 scheme to defraud Medicare by ordering medically unnecessary cancer genetic tests for hundreds of patients she never met or examined. What happened?
The North Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily halted a state appellate court ruling in an escalating certificate-of-need dispute between Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health and Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth, underscoring a fierce competition to expand in Western North Carolina, according to…
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The Justice Department has launched a civil antitrust investigation into New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian regarding concerns over health insurer contracts that could have raised healthcare costs and lessened competition, The New York Times reported July 28. The subpoena, obtained by…
CMS is terminating Chicago-based Weiss Memorial Hospital’s participation in the Medicare program, effective Aug. 9. In a public notice, CMS said the hospital is not in compliance with requirements for “nursing services, emergency services and physician environment.” The Medicare program…
A Florida man was sentenced to 17½ years in prison for his role in a fraud scheme that submitted more than $10.8 million in fraudulent claims for durable medical equipment to Medicare. What happened?
Columbia University has agreed to pay the federal government $200 million to resolve multiple investigations and restore funding the Trump administration pulled from the New York City-based school in the spring. In March, the White House withheld $400 million from…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has agreed to a multistate settlement over allegations it illegally required entry-level nurses to repay training costs, according to a July 24 news release from the office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta. HCA and its…