Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

The Justice Department is charging 18 defendants in separate COVID-19-related fraud schemes, in the largest coordinated law enforcement action targeting COVID-19 healthcare fraud to date. 

Theresa Pickering, 55, has not been a licensed physician assistant since 2014, but this is now the second time she has been charged and convicted for practicing as one in the last eight years.

Police have charged a Texas woman with murder after she allegedly punched a pregnant employee in the stomach at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, causing her to lose the baby, NBC News reported April 18.

Police have charged a Texas woman with murder after she allegedly punched a pregnant employee in the stomach at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, causing her to lose the baby, NBC News reported April 18.

An Idaho judge has issued a civil arrest warrant for Ammon Bundy after the far-right figure again refused to turn up for a court appearance amid an ongoing lawsuit with Boise-based St. Luke’s Health System, the Idaho Capital Sun reported April 18.

A Rhode Island hospital employee has been charged with possessing a ghost gun after police found it in his locker in the hospital.

A former dermatologist was sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulently submitting nearly $120 million in claims related to the 1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band surgery business.

An Indiana nurse pleaded guilty to a felony charge after being charged with removing a COVID-19 patient’s oxygen at a nursing home, the Indianapolis Star reported April 17.

Washington, D.C.- based Sibley Hospital and its parent company John Hopkins Health System agreed to pay $5 million to settle Stark Law violation allegations. 

The Fresno Bee editorial board is supporting California AB 412, a bill that would provide loans to reopen the shuttered Madera County (Calif.) Hospital, in an April 17 opinion piece.