Stories about physicians and other healthcare professionals involved in lawsuits—as either a plaintiff or a defendant—or accused of breaking the law. Various legal updates or unusual stories in the news may land here.
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It’s unclear if the man taken into custody, Edward Dubrovsky, 54, is being formally accused of being linked to the infamous cybercrime cell. Dubrovsky works with ransomware victims, helping them to pay off criminals to regain access to their data.
Physical therapist Jaekwan Lee, 42, will serve 15 months in prison for his role in the fraud scheme, which involved dozens of Amtrak employees, 19 of whom pleaded guilty for their role in the conspiracy.
The state is accusing the insurer of colluding with the broader Blue Cross Blue Shield network to stifle competition and control prices. BCBSM denies the allegations.
A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General shows most of the money comes from a small number of huge cases, where the federal government was able to reclaim hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funds being abused by criminal defendants.
As part of the agreement, Xiang Yuan, MD, a Pennsylvania plastic surgeon, does not admit to violating the Controlled Substances Act. He will, however, have to submit to additional monitoring and reporting requirements.
The esteemed healthcare system is being sued by a former research director who says it retaliated against her for crying foul over alleged serious improprieties involving AI.
The North Carolina-based health system was allegedly using third-party tracking code on its website that sent sensitive patient data back to tech companies like Facebook, where it was used for advertising. Atrium does not admit to wrongdoing.
As part of the deal, the sale of Omnicare to GenieRx must be finalized. The CVS-owned pharmacy group was found in a civil trial to have violated federal law by overbilling Medicare for prescriptions from 2010 to 2018.
The complaint says the patient was left in agony, forcing her to show up at the emergency room nine days later. Both the hospital and the podiatrist are named as defendants.
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, faces a second-degree murder charge in New York, which carries the possibility of life in prison. Federal prosecutors will get a second crack at him in January.
Details are emerging in the extraordinary case of a U.S. toddler who was found alive in a hospital morgue five or six hours after an ER doctor declared the child dead by drowning.
