From a California hospital fighting for bankruptcy eligibility, to a Wisconsin system suing a city over property taxes, here are 10 lawsuits, settlements and legal developments involving hospitals and health systems that Becker's has reported since July 2:
1. Texas Children's Hospital in Houston is being investigated by state and federal officials for allegedly illegally billing Medicaid for transgender care.
2. The board overseeing Hollister, Calif.-based Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital is seeking to reenter Chapter 9 bankruptcy, arguing that a judge improperly tossed its case based on an "unduly narrow" view of insolvency tests while excluding its pension obligations from the analysis.
3. Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic filed a lawsuit against the city of Eau Claire claiming the city's 2023 property tax assessments on its properties are unlawful.
4. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez launched an investigation into Las Cruces, N.M.-based Memorial Medical Center over alleged essential medical care denial.
5. The Washington State Hospital Association is challenging a newly issued administrative policy from the state Department of Labor and Industries related to meal break compensation.
6. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha filed a motion in Providence County Superior Court to hold Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings in contempt for a refusal to comply with a court order to pay $17 million in unpaid bills to hospital vendors.
7. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago was hit with a federal class action lawsuit over a data breach that affected 792,000 patients.
8. Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pa., filed a class action lawsuit against Hill-Rom, a hospital bed maker, alleging anticompetitive behavior.
9. Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall in Newburgh, N.Y., is facing a $21 million lawsuit filed by an anesthesiologist group that claims the hospital breached an exclusive contract to use the group's physicians for its anesthesia services.
10. In the wake of the Supreme Court's overturning of Chevron deference, Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health filed a lawsuit against HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra challenging what the system calls the secretary's "irrational and unlawful interpretation of the statutes he is entrusted to administer."