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• The plaintiff, a behavioral health therapist who works fully remote seeing psychotherapy patients over telehealth, brings claims for disability discrimination, retaliation, mishandling of his medical leave, and a hostile work environment.

• That is the account laid out in a complaint filed August 20, 2026, in federal court in Pittsburgh against the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

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• 否认 — UPMC

  UPMC and Dr. Luketich plan to vigorously defend against the government's claims.

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• The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against UPMC, its physician practice group, and the chair of its department of cardiothoracic surgery under the False Claims Act.

• The complaint alleges the defendants knowingly submitted hundreds of false claims for payment to Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health benefit groups over the past six years.

• UPMC and Dr. Luketich plan to vigorously defend against the government's claims.

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• The plaintiffs alleged that UPMC’s failure to adequately secure their PII constituted negligence and breach of implied contract under Pennsylvania common law.

• A years-long litigation battle surrounding a data breach at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2014 has resolved with a judicially approved settlement. Under the agreement, UPMC must pay $2.65 million to 66,000 employees whose personal information was stolen in the data breach.

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• A lawsuit, brought by lead plaintiff Vince Ranalli, accuses UPMC and CJH of a number of violations including negligence, invasion of privacy, and failure to secure patients' PHI.

• A Pennsylvania medical center and its legal services provider are facing a class-action lawsuit over a data breach that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of more than 36,000 patients.

• The breach occurred last year when hackers gained access to several email accounts belonging to employees of law firm Charles J. Hilton & Associates P.C. (CJH).

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• UPMC and Allegheny County are being sued after the hospital system allegedly performed urine testing on a woman and her newborn — without the woman’s consent — and then turned over the results to county officials for investigation.

• In a complaint filed in Allegheny County's Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, Cherell Harrington of Penn Hills argued these actions were a breach of physician-patient confidentiality, and a violation of her constitutional rights.