From a patient filing a class-action lawsuit against Los Angeles-based UCLA Health over a data breach to Humana being hit with an investor class-action over its deal to be acquired by Aetna, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits.
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Louisville, Ky.-based health insurer Humana has been hit with an investor class-action lawsuit seeking to block the company from being acquired by Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna, according to a Law360 report.
Nurses' Registry & Home Health in Lexington, Ky., sent gift baskets and event tickets to physicians who referred patients to the facility, and those gifts are now the center of a pending Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act…
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has filed a lawsuit claiming Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia overcharged consumers for their premiums at the same time it was cutting payments to physicians who were outside of its coverage network,…
Santa Monica, Calif.-based St. John's Health Center Foundation is suing the estate of Paula Kent Meehan, founder of the Redken hair-care company, for $5 million in donations that Ms. Meehan originally promised in 2007, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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Los Angeles-based UCLA Health reported it suffered a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of approximately 4.5 million people last week, and now the system is facing a potential class-action lawsuit over the breach.
Despite CMS' efforts to overhaul Medicare's enrollment system, the Government Accountability Office says significant screening problems persist among the 1.8 million providers enrolled to bill Medicare, including 23,400 potentially invalid addresses, according to the GAO's recent report.
Thirty-six healthcare lawsuits filed under the qui tam, or whistle-blower, provision of the False Claims Act have been unsealed since May, according to a National Law Review report.
CMS levied fines totaling $755,795 on six Medicare Advantage providers this week for giving inaccurate information about costs and benefits to policyholders.
From a Tennessee hospital settling false claims allegations for $510,000 to another major court decision regarding the Affordable Care Act, here are the latest legal happenings in the healthcare industry.