From a California hospital settling Stark Law allegations to an emergency room physician at a New York hospital being charged with sexually abusing two female patients, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
1. Medical billing company inks $500k false claims settlement
Medical Reimbursement Systems, Inc., which provides billing, coding, compliance and revenue cycle services to hospitals and physician practices, agreed to pay the federal government $500,000 to resolve allegations it submitted false claims to TRICARE.
2. HCA appeals $434M judgment over failure to fund hospital improvements
Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America is appealing a December judgment ordering it to pay nearly $434 million to the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City for allegedly failing to fulfill pledges it made when it bought several hospitals in 2003.
3. Former Texas hospital employee arrested for secretly taping nude patients
A former Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Medical Center employee was charged with two counts of invasive video recording after investigators found he secretly videotaped nude patients at the Waco, Texas-based hospital.
4. California hospital to pay $3.2M to resolve Stark Law allegations
Tri-City Medical Center, a 397-bed hospital in Oceanside, Calif., agreed to pay the federal government more than $3.2 million to resolve allegations it violated Stark Law and the False Claims Act.
5. ER physician at Mount Sinai Hospital accused of drugging, sexually assaulting patients
David H. Newman, MD, a prominent ER physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, was arrested and charged with sexually abusing two female patients.
6. 3 police officers charged in connection with juvenile assault at Baltimore hospital
Three Baltimore police officers were charged in an alleged assault on a juvenile that occurred at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore.
7. Former medical director awarded $1.5M in lawsuit against Missouri hospital
Springfield, Mo.-based Mercy Clinic's former medical director, Hyewon Kim, MD, was awarded more than $1.5 million in damages after claiming she was dismissed from Mercy Clinic for voicing her concerns about two physicians.
8. Planned Parenthood files lawsuit over undercover abortion videos
Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit alleging anti-abortion activists engaged in a "complex criminal enterprise" to produce undercover videos and defraud the reproductive health organization over the past year.
9. Pennsylvania physician pleads guilty to healthcare fraud
John Terry, MD, of Wellsboro, Pa., pleaded guilty in a healthcare fraud case.
10. Supreme Court rejects longshot challenge to ACA
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Sissel v. HHS, a case that included a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
11. St. Mary's Medical Center faces PHI breach lawsuit
A woman is suing St. Mary's Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., alleging the hospital did not adequately protect her protected health information and permitted unauthorized individuals to view her records.
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