Nurse Booted From RFK Jr. Event; Doc Accused of Neck Bite; NP Gets 7 Years


Michigan nurse Ashley Meyers was kicked out of a panel discussion featuring HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for interrupting him by shouting questions about healthcare affordability. (MLive.com)

One doctor is accused of biting another in the neck at a church fundraiser. (NJ.com)

An emergency department nurse in California was killed after stopping to help at the scene of a car crash. (California Post via Yahoo News)

San Francisco-based telehealth company Circle and its chief medical officer Nicole Tsang, DO, will pay more than $3 million to settle allegations that they submitted claims for services by providers who didn’t provide or supervise those services, according to federal prosecutors.

Parents who had a baby after an alleged in vitro fertilization mix-up will keep the child after reaching an agreement with the biological parents. (ABC News)

A California nurse was shot and killed during a robbery. (KTLA)

Alaska neurologist Jeffrey Sponsler, MD, was sentenced to almost 3.5 years in prison for possessing child sexual abuse material. (KTUU)

Scharmaine Lawson Baker, NP, of Louisiana, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for billing Medicare more than $12 million in false claims for medically unnecessary cancer genetic tests, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The parents of Barbara Friedes, MD, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia resident physician who was hit and killed by a drunk driver in 2024, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver. (ABC 6)

Derrick Anthony Mitchell, MD, an emergency department doctor in Texas, had his license temporarily suspended after being arrested multiple times for alleged intoxication and violent behavior. (ABC 13)

An Arkansas pathology lab will pay $30 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to gastroenterology practices to induce referrals, resulting in false claims being submitted to federal insurers for tests that sometimes were medically unnecessary, the DOJ said.

Ohio physician Muna Orra, DO, will pay almost $1 million to settle allegations over her role in a durable medical equipment scheme, federal prosecutors said.

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