From a Georgia health system agreeing to pay $9.8 million to settle allegations brought by its former CEO to an ex-hospital CFO filing a federal discrimination lawsuit, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
1. ACLU sues Dignity Health over hospital's refusal to perform tubal ligationThe American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against San Francisco-based Dignity Health, alleging the Catholic health system is unlawfully denying women's rights to contraception.
2. Shuttered Dallas hospital hit with lawsuit over unpaid wages
A former nurse at Forest Park Medical Center's hospital in Dallas filed a lawsuit against the hospital seeking unpaid wages.
3. Georgia health system to pay $9.8M to settle ex-CEO's allegations
Savannah, Ga.-based Memorial Health, the parent corporation of Memorial Health University Medical Center, Provident Health Services, and Memorial Health University Physicians, inked a $9.8 million settlement to resolve False Claims Act and Stark Law allegations.
4. Aria Health to pay $3M to settle False Claims Act, Stark Law matters
Aria Health inked a $3 million agreement with the federal government after the Philadelphia-based health system self-disclosed it violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law.
5. Unexpected closure of North Carolina hospital spurs legal dispute
Following the closure of Yadkin Valley Hospital on May 22, the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners sued the hospital's for-profit manager, its parent company and its local operational unit. The for-profit manager filed a countersuit in November, and Yadkin County officials have now denied those claims.
6. HCA strikes $2M deal to settle whistle-blower allegations
Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America agreed to pay the federal government and the state of Georgia $2 million to settle allegations medically unnecessary heart procedures were performed at an HCA hospital in Georgia.
7. Steward claims Southcoast filed 'sham' lawsuit in battle over market share
Boston-based Steward Health Care and New Bedford, Mass.-based Southcoast Health System are involved in a bitter battle over market share, and their dispute landed in federal court.
8. Ex-hospital CFO files federal discrimination lawsuit in Washington
The former CFO of Morton (Wash.) General Hospital filed a complaint in federal court alleging he was fired from the hospital for being gay.
9. Ohio cardiologist gets 20 years for performing unnecessary procedures
A cardiologist in Westlake, Ohio, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests and stent insertions, and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and private insurers by $29 million.
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