Two former medical residents have sued a state physician health program, alleging it set back their careers. (KUOW)
An Iowa physician assistant had her license put on probation after working at a medical spa, which was owned by a nurse practitioner, without a supervising physician. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
After being fired from four hospitals in Nebraska, a nurse landed a job at an Iowa facility. Now, she’s facing charges for allegedly stealing controlled substances from the new hospital. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Frank Liu, MD, a family medicine doctor in Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison for sharing child sexual abuse material with a 13-year-old girl. (WGAL)
A Pennsylvania man with no medical training or license was sentenced to 9 to 24 months in state prison for posing as a medical professional, the state’s attorney general announced.
An inmate in Atlanta has alleged that medical neglect at the Fulton County Jail led to the amputation of his lower legs and his fingers. (CBS News)
The feds seized more than $2 million from a California wound care clinic that’s been accused of defrauding Medicare over bogus skin substitute payments.
Jonathan Wayne Morris, MD, who owns an urgent care clinic in Missouri, was arrested for allegedly giving prescription drugs to friends, people who suffered from substance use disorder, and people with whom he had sexual relations, federal prosecutors said.
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) has filed a lawsuit against Feras Hamdan, MD, accusing him of a premeditated, antisemitism-fueled road rage attack. It’s yet another salvo in an ongoing saga, which involved Hamdan filing suit against Miller on the day Hamdan pleaded guilty to reckless driving and disorderly conduct. (Cleveland.com)
A Kansas jury awarded $7.65 million to the family of a man who allegedly contracted a fatal infection from a contaminated device used during an aortic valve replacement. (Kansas City Star)
The Mitchell Eye Center in Florida and its former owner Alan Mitchell, MD, will pay $415,000 to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare for transcranial Doppler tests, federal prosecutors said.
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it settled with owners of a health and wellness-related multi-level marketing business who they allege deceived participants about the amount of money they could earn by selling products and recruiting new participants.
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