The incident happened in 2019 at a WakeMed hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. Both the facility and the physician who performed the maneuver during the birth of Naqah Lake were found by a jury to be liable for the boy’s injuries. The verdict sets a record for the county.

The lawsuits come days after Elevance Health filed a complaint of its own, asking a court to compel the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to remain consistent in how it doles out stars.

A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General shows most of the money comes from a small number of huge cases, where the federal government was able to reclaim hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funds being abused by criminal defendants.

The lawsuit Hemal Gada, MD, filed against UPMC has been dismissed with prejudice. 

A Washington woman says she underwent a routine myelogram last year to assess the functioning of her intrathecal baclofen pump, but she has suffered health problems since then. 

As part of the agreement, Xiang Yuan, MD, a Pennsylvania plastic surgeon, does not admit to violating the Controlled Substances Act. He will, however, have to submit to additional monitoring and reporting requirements. 

Retired Miami Marlins outfielder Avisail Garcia, 35, claims he was supposed to receive a follow-up CT to assess back pain, but the radiology report allegedly "fell through the cracks." 

The esteemed healthcare system is being sued by a former research director who says it retaliated against her for crying foul over alleged serious improprieties involving AI.