A third physician in Texas is facing legal action over a state law that restricts medical providers from providing gender transition-related care to minors.
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Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's CEO and other executives are scheduled to be deposed in connection with a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two women who were contracted as housekeepers at Detroit's Harper University Hospital and Hutzel Women's Hospital, as reported by Bloomberg…
As financial pressures continue across the healthcare industry, more hospitals and health systems are turning to Chapter 11 protection to ensure financial stability and uninterrupted patient care.
Plymouth, N.C.-based Washington Regional Medical Center sought Chapter 11 protection Oct. 29 to help the hospital restructure its finances while ensuring care to patients.
California vote tabulations are currently backing a state ballot measure that would impose new restrictions on health systems' 340B drug spending.
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St. Louis-based Ascension has agreed to provide back pay to staff as part of a revamped COVID-19 vaccine settlement approved by a federal judge in Michigan, Law360 reported Nov. 5.
From Walgreens agreeing to pay $100 million to settle overcharging allegations, to another payer suing over Medicare Advantage star ratings, here are 10 healthcare industry lawsuits, settlements and legal developments that Becker's has reported since Oct. 24:
Jersey City, N.J.-based CarePoint Health Systems was partially denied a request to delay its antitrust lawsuit against West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health by a New Jersey federal magistrate judge due to the health system's Nov. 3 filing for Chapter 11…
The owner of a St. Louis-area home health company is accused of a more than decade-long scheme that defrauded Missouri's Medicaid program out of more than $3 million.
The Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has reached a settlement with McKesson Medical-Surgical to resolve allegations of systemic hiring discrimination at its Grapevine, Texas, facility.