Legal News

Stories about physicians and other healthcare professionals involved in lawsuits—as either a plaintiff or a defendantor accused of breaking the law. Various legal updates or unusual stories in the news may land here.

Cigna, one of the nation’s largest health insurance providers, announced new priorities for its capital deployment, including steering an additional $450 million into Cigna Ventures.

Cigna will pay $172M for allegedly filing false claims that lacked necessary imaging to back diagnosis codes

NPs purportedly would diagnose serious, complex conditions without the necessary medical imaging to reach such conclusions, the Department of Justice said Sept. 30. 

October 2, 2023
The long legal saga of Richard Paulus, a Kentucky cardiologist accused of performing unnecessary cardiac procedures, appears to still be going strong in 2022 and might be reviewed by the Supreme Court. The New York state radiologist is facing 36 misdemeanor counts for secret sexual recording without consent, according to a story in the Boston Herald.

The most common reasons for imaging contrast agent-related malpractice lawsuits

Experts offered three takeaways from their query of legal claims databases, sharing their findings in Radiology

September 19, 2023
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Philips will pay $479M to settle class-action lawsuit stemming from product recall

The Amsterdam-based imaging industry giant emphasized that the agreement “does not include or constitute any admission of liability, wrongdoing or fault.” 

September 8, 2023

Judge denies Radiology Partners’ initial request to resolve ‘bogus’ UnitedHealthcare lawsuit via arbitration

The nation's largest commercial insurer recently filed an amended complaint, claiming that RP perpetrated a billing scheme motivated by "pure greed."  

August 7, 2023
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Radiologist arrested for attempted murder-suicide

The American public heaved a collective sigh of relief upon hearing a family of four somehow survived their car’s violent tumble down a rocky 250-foot cliff in Northern California Jan. 2.

January 5, 2023

Radiologist accused of misreading MRI—resulting in $18M settlement—says he met standard of care

Travis Clark, MD, and Seattle Radiologists described the patient's injuries as “unfortunate," but testimony from three imaging experts backed the accused clinician’s claims, attorneys said.

March 8, 2021
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Practice agrees to pay $1.4M for allegedly delivering teleradiology services from outside the US

The Department of Justice claims that Mori, Bean and Brooks fraudulently billed government payment programs for the interpretation work between 2012 and 2019. 

November 20, 2020

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"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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