Stories about physicians and other healthcare professionals involved in lawsuits—as either a plaintiff or a defendant—or accused of breaking the law. Various legal updates or unusual stories in the news may land here.
While the law sunsets in 2028, ACA International and the debt collector Creditors Bureau USA are not waiting. They filed a lawsuit in federal court arguing that Colorado is illegally restricting free speech, in violation of the First Amendment.
The UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries had attempted to have the case dismissed. However, a court rejected the motion. Nearly half of Nebraskans were impacted by the infamous February 2024 data breach on Change Healthcare.
Such contract clauses are illegal in the state. However, physicians at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth said they’re being pressured to sign them or face dismissal.
Univabs took The Radiology Group to court in May after an independent arbitrator ruled TRG owed the India-based imaging firm the six-figure sum, which it refused to pay.
The two companies have been unable to assuage antitrust concerns raised by the Department of Justice. A magistrate will attempt to hammer out acceptable terms for the home healthcare merger at a conference scheduled for August.
John R. Manning, MD, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud for issuing unnecessary prescriptions billed to Medicare and receiving more than $812,000 in kickbacks.
UnitedHealth Group said it is seeking repayment of “interest-free” advances distributed to providers struggling during the shutdown of claims processing caused by the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare.
The academic medical center is accused of deploying lax security protocols that allowed an employee to access internet-connected cameras and private emails in acts of privacy invasion that lasted a decade.
Among the agencies impacted is the Department of Veterans Affairs, which released thousands of probationary workers as part of a staffing purge conducted by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Thomas J. Bryce, MD, purportedly only spent five minutes reading head and spine images of a 74-year-old who had experienced a fall, a fact harped on by winning plaintiff attorneys.
In issuing an injunction, a federal district court in Rhode Island ruled that states and their populations would suffer irreparable harm if the funds allocated by Congress were not granted to them.