Compliance & Legal
Opponents say hospitals are reaping windfall profits by buying drugs at a discount but a trade group counters that cutting the program will force safety net hospitals to reduce services and layoff caregivers.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights called for increased monitoring of psychiatric hospitals to ensure patient safety.
$2.4 billion came from healthcare, including high-profile settlements with EHR vendor eClinicalWorks and EpiPen maker Mylan.
The troubles aren't over, however, with probes by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission still ongoing.
Suit filed by employees alleged the system docked them for meal breaks that were either partial or never taken at all.
Under the new law, data brokers could create a new product useful for population health and potentially sellable.
Raymond Kraynak doled out millions of opioids without a "legitimate medical purpose," DOJ says.
The upheld decision means that hospitals and other organizations can be held liable when they should have known what was happening.
Vishal Patel, 30, of Glenn Allen, allegedly used personal information and credentials of real physicians to falsify documents, gain employment and treat patients, the Department of Justice said.
Mayo Clinic said it gave union multiple warnings that if there was a strike, the minimum contract for temporary fill-in workers would mean a lock-out.