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Federal Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Lawsuit Against IDSA Regarding Its Guidelines For Treating Lyme Disease

January 27, 2024

A professional society specializing in the study and treatment of infectious diseases published guidelines in a peer-reviewed medical journal for treating Lyme disease. Individuals who claim to suffer from persistent Lyme disease symptoms sued the society, alleging the guidelines harmed them by cast[...]

Chronic Lyme Disease In The United States

January 22, 2024

Lyme disease has been a nationally notifiable condition in the United States since 1991. Reports of Lyme disease are collected and verified by state and local health departments in accordance with their legal mandate and surveillance practices. After removal of personal identifiers, selected informa[...]

Study Describes Role Of Hospital Diagnostic Errors That Lead To ICU Admissions Or Death In The Hospital

January 16, 2024

A study published on January 8, 2024 in JAMA Network entitled Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care investigated how often diagnostic errors happen in adult patients who are transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) or die in the hospital, what ca[...]

HHS Proposes Rule Establishing Disincentives For Health Care Providers That Have Committed Information Blocking

January 7, 2024

On October 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule for public comment that would establish disincentives for health care providers found by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to have committed information blocking – when a provider[...]

Survey Of Pennsylvania Nursing Homes Finds Critical Staffing Issues

January 4, 2024

Between February 6 and February 17, 2023, the Pennsylvania Health Care Association (PHCA) conducted a digital survey of nursing facility members of for-profit, nonprofit, and government-run facilities. The focus of the survey was to better understand the current state of long-term care. The purpose [...]

Up To 10 Oregon Hospital Patients Died From Tap Water Injected By Nurse Instead Of Fentanyl

January 2, 2024

An investigation began in late December 2023 regarding a nurse in an Oregon hospital who allegedly injected patients with tap water instead of fentanyl, leading to serious infections from bacteria in the tap water and up to 10 patient deaths. A criminal investigation began into the incidents at Asan[...]

$12M To Be Paid By Advocate Aurora Health To Settle Tracking Pixel Data Breach Lawsuit

January 1, 2024

On August 9, 2023, Advocate Aurora Health Inc. and the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (Civil Action No. 2:22-cv-1253-JPS) entered into a Settlement Agreement that states, in part: On October 24, 2022, Shyanne John and a[...]

European Commission Fined Pharma Companies €13,4 million In Antitrust Cartel Settlement

December 25, 2023

The European Commission has fined Alkaloids of Australia, Alkaloids Corporation, Boehringer, Linnea and Transo-Pharm a total of €13,4 million for participating in a cartel concerning an important pharmaceutical ingredient. C2 PHARMA was not fined as it revealed the cartel to th[...]

OIG Advisory Opinion OKs Bonus Payments To Employed Physicians

December 20, 2023

Federal Anti-Kickback Statute The Federal anti-kickback statute makes it a criminal offense to knowingly and willfully offer, pay, solicit, or receive any remuneration to induce, or in return for, the referral of an individual to a person for the furnishing of, or arranging for the furnishing of, an[...]

$6.19M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For TBI After Fall In Hospital

December 10, 2023

On September 28, 2023, an Erie County Common Pleas Court jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $6.19 million against Firelands Regional Medical Center for the permanent brain injury sustained by a patient who fell after being given medications that increased his fall r[...]

Convictions For $93M Home Health Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme

December 9, 2023

On October 3, 2023, a federal jury in Miami convicted a Florida man and woman for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud Medicare by billing over $93 million for home health therapy services that were never rendered. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Karel Felipe, 42, of [...]

$6.5 Million Lyme Disease Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 17, 2023

Earlier this year, a Maine medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a local hospital and in favor of a 25-year-old man whose Lyme disease was not timely diagnosed or treated, leading to Lyme carditis and to his death eight days after his Lyme disease was finally diagnosed. The man had g[...]

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