A hospital in Oregon settled its class action lawsuit last week: PORTLAND, Ore. – A settlement was reached Tuesday in a closely watched class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of uninsured patients who claim a major nonprofit hospital system overcharged them. The complaint alleges that Providence Hospital System contradicted its stated mission of providing universal access…
Category Archives: Nursing Home Problems
Suit against Maryland over Medicaid
A new class action is aiming to cut the costs of long-term care for Maryland residents on Medicaid: The state of Maryland has been systematically denying hundreds or thousands of senior citizens Medicaid benefits to which they are entitled under federal law, according to a class action suit filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The…
Proposed settlement for Mississippi Medicaid suit
DeSoto Times Today writer Robert Lee Long commented recently on a proposed class action settlement involving nursing home residents in Mississippi: For some time, Mississippi lawmakers have sought to [allow] nursing home residents on Medicaid a chance to receive care at home by providing housing and utility deposits. They hope the practice will reduce Medicaid…
Suit involving vets’ retirement homes
I was reading in The Sun Herald that the director of a veterans’ home, (the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi), is retiring amid controversy. Apparently there were a multitude of complaints filed against him while he worked there. But the part of the article that most interested me was this: In addition, 14…