By Ayla Ellison, Becker’s Hospital Review. A Florida plastic surgeon filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against Orlando (Fla.) Health Aug. 21, alleging he was fired and made the target of a smear campaign for… Read More
By Ayla Ellison. Becker’s Hospital Review. Kalispell (Mont.) Regional Healthcare disclosed in June that it is under federal investigation, and a recently unsealed complaint filed by the CFO of the hospital’s physician network provides more details about… Read More
By Ayla Ellison, Becker’s Hospital Review. LaGrangeville, N.Y.-based Health Quest Systems and certain of its subsidiaries have agreed to pay more than $14.7 million to the federal government and an additional $895,427 to the state… Read More
By Darran Simon, Newsday.com An elderly deaf man died of cancer in April without knowing his diagnosis after three Long Island facilities failed to provide him and his deaf children with accommodations like sign language… Read More
By Berger Montague PC. Earlier this year, Florida-based health services company Halifax Health paid $85 million to settle allegations that it was engaged in a years-long kickback scheme in violation of the federal Stark Law. The settlement… Read More
By Bill Hethcock, Staff Writer, Dallas Business Journal. Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano is accused in a series of lawsuits of allowing an allegedly dangerous surgeon to continue operating, putting patients at risk. A… Read More
By REED ABELSON and JULIE CRESWELL, The New York Times. In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one… Read More
By Health News Florida Staff. The federal government has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against a company that provides doctors and other health professionals to work in hospitals in Florida and many other states. IPC The… Read More
As reported in the Orlando Sentinel. The Adventist Health System, one of the largest health-care systems in the country, which includes Florida Hospital Medical Group, settled a fraud case with the U.S. government and four states… Read More
Massachusetts Nurses Association, CANTON, Mass. 78% of RNs agree that the quality of patient care in Massachusetts hospitals is suffering due to unsafe patient assignments including 59% of RNs who are aware of patient complications… Read More