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.
Former Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre, MD, and other executives are accused in a $1.4 billion legal filing of paying themselves hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, despite the health system being insolvent.
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission is suing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City over its AI claims audits, which have rejected some 350 incidents of patient care. The hospital claims the insurer is violating state and federal laws.
After the Supreme Court lifted a lower court injunction, approximately 10,000 employees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were officially terminated.
In a new report, the New York Times details multiple incidents of the insurance giant using legal threats to silence social media users and news outlets, citing the murder of Brian Thompson and the threat of rising violence as the basis for its claims.
A federal judge in California ruled existing evidence of the negative effects of fluoride in drinking water warrants an investigation and potential action from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Attorneys filed the complaint Sept. 24 in the New York State Supreme Court, also naming William A Weiner, MD, and Nexray Medical Imaging as defendants.
Particle Health has accused Epic Systems of monopolistic business practices that hinder data-driven initiatives to improve patient care. Epic calls the complaint “baseless.”