A former medical director of one of Seattle Children's clinics is suing the hospital alleging racial discrimination, The Seattle Times reported Oct. 18. 

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health acknowledged that it failed to provide compliance reports to the state of North Carolina for shuttered Martin General Hospital for five years, local news outlet WITN reported Oct. 18.

Two former employees of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis admitted to stealing more than $175,000 worth of supplies from the hospital, according to Fox News affiliate WHBQ-TV. 

The president and co-owner of a Connecticut nursing program that was shut down in February testified Oct. 16 in a class-action lawsuit filed by eight former Stone Academy students.

The Washington Hospital Association filed a lawsuit Oct. 16 against the state over the state's health department's change in interpretation of a long-standing charity care law. According to the lawsuit, hospitals statewide are required to provide charity care for any service to any patient seeking it regardless of their ability to pay or an indigent person's residency.

More than 100 plaintiffs have joined four separate lawsuits against Derrick Todd, MD, a former rheumatologist at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital accused of performing inappropriate pelvic and breast exams on patients, The Boston Globe reported Oct. 16. 

A Florida woman was charged with operating an assisted living facility without a license and organized scheme to defraud after she was allegedly found running a postoperative care company and using the license of a California nurse, ABC affiliate WPLG reported Oct. 16.

Mayo Clinic and Lifepoint Health are suing Bristol Myers Squibb and its subsidiary, Celgene, alleging the companies inflated the price of the cancer drug Revlimid by paying other drugmakers to keep their generic versions off the market, the San Francisco Business Times reported Oct. 16.

Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health of Long Island will not have to defend allegations it fraudulently diverted a nursing home's service payments to another facility while certifying compliance, according to an Oct. 16 Bloomberg report.

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale University is facing mounting lawsuits from former patients who claim they underwent fertility procedures without receiving painkillers under the assumption that they would. 

A former Iowa nurse pleaded guilty to stealing pain medication meant for more than 50 maternity patients and replacing it with saline, ABC affiliate KCRG reported Oct. 12.

Charles Adams, MD, and his practice must pay more than $27 million for violating the False Claims Act, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.

A Cook County, Ill., jury awarded $55.5 million to Shamond Butler, 20, a man who suffered brain injuries during his birth at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Oct. 12.

The man accused of kidnapping and killing a Detroit nurse pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Oct. 10, NBC affiliate WDIV reported.

Kaiser Permanente has reached a $200 million settlement with the California Department of Managed Health Care to resolve deficiencies in its delivery and management of behavioral healthcare. 

A former Georgia paramedic was sentenced to eight years in prison after a patient died in an ambulance crash, Fox affiliate WAGA reported Oct. 12.

More than 60 women filed a class-action lawsuit accusing a former Boston-based Brigham and Women's physician of sexual abuse, WBUR reported Oct. 11.

The Department of Defense is being sued by Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora over changes to insurance reimbursements, The Gazette reported Oct. 11.

Three physicians at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center have filed suit against owner Los Angeles County, alleging that the misconduct of one orthopedic surgeon was overlooked by management for years, NBC News reports.  

A Washington hospital nurse filed suit against a state insurance agency after being denied coverage for Wegovy, a weight management drug, The New York Times reported Oct. 10.