An Iowa woman is suing a medical device company alleging she had a pacemaker mistakenly implanted after a heart monitor gave her doctors . (Des Moines Register)
A defamation lawsuit brought by an ob/gyn is after a judge ruled that journalists reported "verifiably false" claims about him. Mahendra Amin, MD, sued MSNBC in September 2021 after it reported that he performed "mass hysterectomies" on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees. (New York Post)
Three former executives have been charged for allegedly embezzling $15 million from a Chicago hospital, .
A Missouri couple has sued a Kansas City hospital alleging it , after the husband developed an infection following hip replacement surgery. (Kansas City Star)
The family of a Massachusetts teen who died after eating an extremely spicy chip has filed a against Hershey, Walgreens, and several others. (AP)
An Iowa judge has ruled that the state's medical board from surgeon Giovanni Ciuffo, MD, whom it was investigating for alleged professional incompetence. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
New Mexico's attorney general has into Memorial Medical Center following a news report that the facility violated state laws by turning away low-income patients who were seeking care. (NBC News)
A network of skilled nursing facilities will pay just over $21 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to federal insurers for therapy services that were unnecessary or never provided, .
Texas pharma marketer Quintan Cockerell was sentenced to 2 years and 5 months in prison for his role in a scheme that involved boosting prescriptions for expensive compounded medications that weren't always necessary, .
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for his role in an unnecessary lab testing scheme, .
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