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Patients lose in Lutheran's legal battles

The lawsuit by Community Health Systems and Lutheran Health Network against former CEO Brian Bauer has been settled. In contrast to the heady days of high earnings when Lutheran was home to a dozen or ... read more

Govt explores legal route in J&J compensation case

A gap in the law reportedly invited the legal challenge, spelling a prolonged battle for trouble-stricken patients. With no specific legal ... not sufficient to compensate for pain and any ensuing los... read more

DCFS sued over 'inhumane' practice of leaving kids too long in psych hospitals

Also Thursday, an Uptown psychiatric hospital that is struggling to survive amid complaints that young patients face unsafe conditions will ask a federal judge to intervene in its battle with the ... ... read more

Special Report: Tale of Victims, Patients and Neglect of Mental Illness in Nigeria

Speaking to Sunday Sun in Abuja, the legal practitioner currently working ... to death with a machete by a wandering and aggressive patient. There is a rise in violent attacks by people suffering ... read more

Supreme Court gives victory to Planned Parenthood in Medicaid case

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left lower court victories intact for Planned Parenthood in a legal battle with states over access by Medicaid patients to the ... was told it will lose i... read more

MayView stabilizes after a rocky year

More than 6,000 patients rely on ... some of them legal and some of them not, but all are affected by the "chill" and are less likely to sign up for anything that could amount to public charge. It's a... read more

Wave of nursing home closures hitting small communities

With the cost to house a patient estimated at $163 in South Dakota, nursing homes are losing $32 per day, per Medicaid patient, a total loss of about $39 million ... The emails were the opening salvo ... read more

Family still in dark over mum's death after chemotherapy treatment

No one disputes Walker died from massive blood loss ... of-court settlement. Patient care, not malice, was not the motivation for the complaint, insists Greenbaum who was upfront about the fallout wit... read more

Texas is suing -- again -- to end Obamacare. This time it has some advantages.

Tim Jost, an emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University who has studied Obamacare and its legal battles extensively ... overreach and complained that it forced millions of patients to switch ... read more

Patients need policymakers’ help to enforce mental health parity laws

At the time, Bill and Margot weren’t aware of the legal requirements that guaranteed parity in coverage ... Adequate health insurance is only one weapon in the battle against overdose and unintentiona... read more

Nursing Home Patients Lose Round on Forced Arbitration

Nursing homes just notched a temporary victory in a legal battle that pits them again patients’ advocates and the federal government. A Mississippi federal judge ruled Monday in favor of nursing homes ... read more

Johnson & Johnson payout: A big win for patient rights in India

The amount of compensation each patient gets will depend on the degree of disability and healthy years and income lost that will be calculated using ... it took US-based Dr Kunal Saha 15 years of lega... read more