A study from Mountain View, Calif.-based HealthPocket shows 47 percent of Affordable Care Act plans on HealthCare.gov lack out-of-network coverage.
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A Florida federal judge Friday denied Rockledge, Fla.-based Health First's request to dismiss claims that it defrauded the government hundreds of millions of dollars by providing kickbacks to physicians who referred patients to them, according to a Law360 report.
Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Monday signed a bill that will legalize physician-assisted suicide in California in 2016, according to Reuters.
A $25 million lawsuit filed against Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System by its former interim CEO, Charlesetta Woodward-Thompson, has been settled for $600,000, according to a Times Free Press report.
The Internal Revenue Service is participating in a criminal investigation into a former executive of Cleveland-based MetroHealth System for what the health system describes as "possible irregularities in the department of oral health and dentistry," according to a Cleveland.com report.
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From an ex-hospital CFO being charged with grand theft to a physician who billed Medicare for 24-hour workdays being convicted of fraud, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit against Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health for refusing to provide emergency abortions to women whose incomplete miscarriages put them at high risk of serious complications.
According to an analysis by BioMedTracker that was commissioned by Forbes Magazine, 89% of drugs that were submitted for approval to FDA were given the green light this year.
Standpoint, Idaho-based Bonner General Health's former CFO is charged with grand theft for allegedly embezzling approximately $225,000 from the hospital, according to a Bonner County Daily Bee report.
Bozeman (Mont.) Health Services has filed a lawsuit against Kansas City, Mo.-based Gallaher MSA Search for failing to identify felony theft convictions on the record of the hospital's recently fired president and CEO, Kevin Pitzer, according to the Bozeman Daily…