Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare has dropped a lawsuit seeking a temporary injunction to remove a former patient who remained in an inpatient room for about five months after being discharged, the health system confirmed in a statement shared with Becker’s.…
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The American Hospital Association is asking CMS to ensure that any fraud, waste and abuse-related changes are data-driven and do not add unnecessary administrative burden on hospitals. The organization submitted a letter to CMS on March 30 in response to…
For the first time, payers must publicly post data on how often they deny prior authorization requests, how quickly they process them and how often denials are overturned on appeal. The first reports are due March 31 under a rule…
The Pennsylvania Department of Health cited Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest for using pepper spray to restrain a combative patient, The Morning Call reported March 30. The Sept. 14 incident involved a patient who was brought by ambulance to…
A federal judge has reduced Theranos co-founder Elizabeth Holmes’ prison sentence by one year, according to court documents obtained by Becker’s. The reduction reflects a 2023 sentencing guideline change that grants leniency to first-time offenders convicted of certain nonviolent crimes. …
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The Trump administration is expanding its civil rights crackdown on university diversity practices, launching new investigations into medical school admissions at Stanford (Calif.) University, Columbus-based Ohio State University and the University of California San Diego. The Justice Department is demanding…
The Justice Department has accused NewYork-Presbyterian, a health system based in New York City, of stifling competition through restrictive payer contracts, according to a lawsuit filed March 26. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District for the Southern District of…
Federal lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would cap patients’ insulin costs at $35 per month. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and John Kennedy, R-La., introduced the bill March 25. The $35 monthly price cap…
A Canadian religious group, Mission Fund, is suing UnitedHealth Group because the company did not include the group’s proposal for reporting on acquisition consequences in its 2026 proxy materials, according to a March 20 filing in the federal district court in Washington,…
From the owner of a California medical center charged in an alleged $11 million scheme to an Alabama physician sentenced in a telemedicine fraud case, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker’s has reported since March 6: 1. An…