Legal & Regulatory Issues

A judge has found the board for Memphis, Mo.-based Scotland County Hospital guilty of violating the state's open meetings and records law, commonly referred to as the Sunshine Law, when it held two emergency closed meetings, the hospital confirmed in…

A federal grand jury has re-indicted a former Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital nurse accused of tampering with medications meant to be dispensed to patients, according to a Nov. 9 report from the Republican-American.

A Michigan pharmacist and his brother were convicted for their roles in a $15 million healthcare fraud scheme. 

A New York City judge dismissed a lawsuit against the chair of One Brooklyn Health's board of trustees, originally filed in December.

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. 

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. 

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.