Legal & Regulatory Issues

For nearly $225,000, the owner of a durable medical equipment company settled allegations concerning a Medicare kickback scheme, according to court documents. 

A jury has awarded a $45 million verdict to a teenager who was left with significant brain damage after aspirating food following his discharge from Temple University Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to the neck, The Philadelphia Inquirer…

The Boston City Council voted Aug. 7 to approve a resolution calling on the city's Public Health Commission to declare a public health emergency due to the planned Aug. 31 closure of Dallas-based Steward Health Care's Carney Hospital. 

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital has filed an appeal in a case made famous by a Netflix documentary, arguing that it wasn't allowed a fair trial, Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported Aug. 3. 

The Justice Department is starting a pilot program to reward whistleblowers who expose healthcare fraud schemes involving private insurance plans. 

Several staff members at Temple University Hospital-Episcopal Campus in Philadelphia were injured — including a specialist who was stabbed with a needle — in a struggle with a patient on July 31, CBS News Philadelphia reported.

A former organ transplant coordinator, who would evaluate patients near death across 48 hospitals, has been convicted for illegally accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's medical records, The Washington Post reported July 31. 

CMS told Salem-based Oregon State Hospital leaders that the hospital is no longer in immediate jeopardy, Fox12 Oregon reported July 31.

A former New York hospital administrator is suing her former employer, alleging retaliation for having reported complaints of age and gender discrimination, according to The Leader-Herald.

Gentiva, successor to Kindred at Home, has agreed to pay $19.43 million to resolve allegations that Kindred at Home knowingly submitted false claims and retained overpayments for patients who were ineligible to receive Medicare or Medicaid hospice benefits.