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Doc Wins $14M Discrimination Case; $10M Malpractice Award; Nurse Impersonators

— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

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Legal Break over a blindfolded Lady Justice statue holding scales.

A jury awarded oncologist Lauren Pinter-Brown, MD, formerly of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, in a re-trial of a gender discrimination case. (Daily Bruin)

A New York appeals court against Staten Island physician Theodore Strange, MD. (silive.com)

Cape Cod Hospital in Massachusetts will pay more than $24 million to resolve allegations that it submitted claims for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures that weren't compliant with Medicare cardiac procedure rules, .

A Michigan woman was charged for practicing as a nurse . (ABC 12)

And an Indiana man has been accused of -- and with failing to register as a sex offender. (FOX 59)

Finally, a Texas woman who was sentenced to 18 months in prison, according to federal prosecutors.

A federal judge has against the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and its maintenance of certification (MOC) program. (Cook County Record)

Doctors in Kansas have challenging a state law that would require them to report patients' reasons for seeking abortion care. (ABC News)

A family in Washington state has sued Seattle Children's Hospital, alleging that the death of a 16-year-old girl from myocarditis was . (Seattle Times)

A diagnostics lab will pay $2.5 million to settle claims that it paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than 100 physicians in the form of in exchange for patient referrals, according to federal prosecutors.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation will pay $7.6 million to settle claims that a primary investigator on some of its NIH grant awards didn't disclose financial ties , federal prosecutors reported.

Magellan Diagnostics will plead guilty and pay $42 million to resolve claims that its lead testing devices produced inaccurately low results for potentially tens of thousands of children, .

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    Kristina Fiore leads MedPage’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com.