A medical marketer was convicted by a federal jury in Texas for his role in a $55 million scheme that defrauded Tricare and other federal healthcare programs. 

A Virginia medical equipment company owner pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare. 

A former director at Doylestown (Pa.) Hospital has been charged with stealing more than $600,000 from the system almost two years after an investigation was launched, according to an Oct. 25 WHYY report.

A murder suspect who escaped Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University Hospital is back in custody after a seven-week search, The Washington Post reported Oct. 26.

Community Hospital for the Monterey Peninsula and its parent company, Montage Health, may file for a new trial after losing a $9.475 million wrongful termination case, Monterey County Weekly reported Oct. 26. 

Sokari Bobmanuel, the former pharmacist-in-chief of Cornerstone Rx Pharmacy in Houston, and co-conspirator Alantha Stewart, the co-owner of Sunnyside Medical clinic were sentenced to a combined 24 years in prison for their roles in running a pill mill operation.

Cindy Norgen, 61, a former account manager at North Ottawa Community Health System, which joined Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health in October 2022, was given a minimum sentence of seven years in prison for embezzling more than $2 million from the health system, MLive reported Oct. 25.

Ten people have been indicted in an alleged scheme that defrauded Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance companies out of at least $20 million by trafficking black-market HIV medication. 

A Louisiana physician pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare out of $5.6 million by ordering medically unnecessary durable medical equipment and cancer genetic testing.  

Half of the hospitals that have been fined by CMS for alleged price transparency violations have appealed their penalties. 

The federal government is planning to take another No Surprises Act court loss to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, according to an Oct. 20 court filing. 

A Wyoming nurse pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a $6.1 million healthcare scheme in Idaho.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has widened an investigation into Stone Academy, a nursing school that was shut down in February after failing to address multiple compliance issues. 

A Kaiser Permanente hospital in California was fined $18,000 after an MRI machine's magnetic field pulled a metal bed and a nurse, causing her serious injuries, the Daily Post reported Oct. 20. 

Several dialysis providers agreed to pay more than $9.5 million to settle allegations they double billed Medicaid for certain medications. 

Retail pharmacies are accusing Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics of monopolizing the pharmacy benefit manager market and conspiring to extort pharmacies, according to court documents.

St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., faces lawsuits filed by former executives alleging the hospital forced them out after they raised patient safety concerns, the Long Beach Business Journal reported Oct. 23. 

A New York physician pleaded guilty to counts of unlawful distribution of opioids and healthcare fraud, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise reported Oct. 23.

From the Washington Hospital Association suing the state over a charity care law, to Mayo Clinic and Lifepoint Health suing Bristol Myers Squibb for allegedly inflating the price of a cancer drug, here are 11 hospital lawsuits and settlements Becker's has reported since Oct. 3:

Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical Holdings has reached a deal with two Pennsylvania stakeholders to halt active litigation and activate a 270-day window to sell its struggling Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer Health.