The former chief scientific officer and executive director of Children’s Mercy Research Institute is suing Kansas City, Mo.-based Children’s Mercy Hospital, alleging wrongful termination. The lawsuit, filed March 18, claims Tom Curran, PhD, was fired in November 2023 shortly after…

In a lawsuit filed in early March, electric utility company ComEd accused an Illinois hospital of owing more than $800,000, according to the Lake and McHenry County Scanner.  ComEd accused the hospital, Waukegan, Ill.-based Vista Medical Center East, of failing…

Purdue Pharma has submitted a revised Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan proposing more than $7.4 billion in cash payments to creditors, including U.S. states and others, to compensate victims of the opioid crisis, Bloomberg reported March 18.  The plan includes the…

The former CEO of Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton, Iowa, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for defrauding his former California employer out of more than $3.2 million, according to a March 11 news release from the Justice…

HHS has filed a legal brief urging a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits brought by pharmaceutical companies challenging the agency’s stance on 340B rebate models.  Here are four takeaways: 

The Federal Trade Commission submitted a second comment to the Indiana Department of Health March 17 requesting the state agency deny Terre Haute, Ind.-based Union Health's application to acquire Terre Haute Regional Hospital, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare.

Wakefield, R.I.-based South County Health has filed a lawsuit against a former employee and a group that has alleged mismanagement on the part of the hospital, claiming they interfered with the hospital's expected donations.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will halt almost all lawsuits to collect medical debt after entering into a legal settlement with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, according to the Star Tribune.

A man was sentenced March 10 in connection with a 2022 assault that left two employees injured at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C., according to local media outlets. 

A physician from Slidell, La., was charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to bill Medicare for unnecessary cancer genetic tests.