A recent survey of healthcare industry executives by Littler Mendelson, a labor and employment law firm, revealed the vast majority of executives are concerned about the government's continued focus on prosecuting healthcare fraud, and executives are taking a number of…
Legal & Regulatory Issues
From a man suing a Florida hospital after his amputated leg was found in the garbage to a physician claiming HCA was able to beat his antitrust appeal by improperly influencing a judge, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits…
A physician has filed a lawsuit claiming Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Holdings beat his antitrust appeal due to Ninth Circuit Judge Jay Bybee being improperly assigned to the case.
Health insurer UnitedHealthcare will pay $11.5 million to resolve allegations it systematically denied payments to physicians to achieve financial targets, according to a Triad Business Journal report.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica Health System's appeal of the ruling that blocked its acquisition of Maumee, Ohio-based St. Luke's Hospital.
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Although the practicality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act being fully repealed becomes less likely as more time passes and more of its provisions are adopted, there is still a great deal of doubt surrounding the law. If…
John Timiriasieff claims his leg was thrown in the garbage after it was amputated at Coral Gables, Fla.-based Doctors Hospital in October 2014, according to a Reuters report.
An ambulance company and nine hospitals in the Jacksonville, Fla., area, including four operated by Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Holdings, have agreed to pay $7.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations they fraudulently billed Medicare for medically unnecessary ambulance…
From a former hospital CFO being ordered to pay restitution for lying about meaningful use to the governor of Florida filing a lawsuit against the federal government over Medicaid expansion, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements.
Center, Texas-based Shelby Regional Medical Center's former CFO, Joe White, has been ordered to pay more than $4.4 million in restitution for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme, according to a KXXV report.