Foot Doc Sues HHS for $50M; Upside-Down Heart Valve Suit; Doc Gets 40 Years

Michigan podiatrist Anthony Weinert, DPM, has filed a $50 million lawsuit against HHS agents, claiming he was falsely accused of healthcare fraud, which he says cost him his reputation, two clinics, and a supervisory surgical position at a local hospital. (WXYZ)

The parents of a 13-year-old girl filed a $17 million lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University, alleging their daughter’s heart wouldn’t restart after the surgical team installed a heart valve upside down. (The Oregonian)

A Connecticut jury awarded $7.7 million to the family of Jacqueline Satchell, MD, who died after doctors allegedly missed warning signs of an infection following surgery for a perforated bowel. (Patch.com)

Irfan Fazil, MD, of Arizona, was charged in a fraud scheme with alleged ties to Mexican drug cartels. (Arizona’s Family)

Tyler James Hurst, DO, an emergency medicine doctor in Montana convicted of sexually assaulting multiple female patients, was sentenced to 40 years in prison. (KPAX)

A Missouri nurse has been accused of sexually assaulting a patient. (KOMU)

A Georgia woman was arrested after allegedly working under nursing licenses that weren’t hers. (WRDW)

Jaynier Moya, MD, of Florida, and two staffers at a medical research center were charged for their roles in an alleged scheme to falsify clinical trial data, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Federal prosecutors said they obtained a $3.4 million settlement against a Nebraska pharmacist who allegedly submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for prescription drugs that didn’t have valid prescriptions or that were never dispensed, and for billing for branded drugs when generics were dispensed.

The CEO of Chesapeake Regional Healthcare in Virginia resigned in the wake of a lawsuit alleging one of its hospitals failed to stop a physician from performing medically unnecessary procedures for nearly a decade. (Becker’s Hospital Review)