The following hospital lawsuits were reported in the past month, beginning with the most recent.

Geisinger is seeking a court order to block Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare from breaking away from the Danville, Pa.-based system, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

The former CFO of Brewster Ambulance Services accused the company of firing him after he tried to expose fraudulent Medicare billing, according to The Patriot Ledger.

A federal grand jury on Jan. 23 indicted a physician, who was one the biggest prescribers of fentanyl spray in Missouri, for his alleged role in a $2.4 million medical fraud scheme, according to KY3 News.

From former employees suing Cerner to the U.S. Supreme Court taking up a case on the ACA's contraception coverage requirements, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.   

Albany-based State University of New York and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in New York City face a lawsuit from two surgeons, who allege the organization retaliated against them for voicing patient safety concerns, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

A former claims assistant at the Veterans Benefits Administration Office in Huntington, W.Va., was sentenced to six months in federal prison Jan. 21 for illegally accessing six of his fellow veterans' medical records, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

Ending more than a decade of litigation, three Texas health systems settled claims that they colluded to depress the salaries of registered nurses in San Antonio and four other cities, according to court documents.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 21 denied a motion to accelerate the review of a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the ACA.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Jan. 17 it will review a lawsuit over the scope of employers' religious freedom and women's access to birth control, according to The New York Times.

The former owner of Long Beach, Calif.-based Pacific Hospital received a 15-month prison sentence for his role in a kickback scheme that led to more than $900 million in fraudulent bills being submitted, according to Bloomberg Law. 

From hospital groups suing HHS over Medicare payment policies to Cigna filing a lawsuit against health clinics in Texas, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.

A judge ordered Knox County Hospital District in Knox City, Texas, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas to arbitrate most of a $21 million lawsuit outside of court.

A Texas physician was found guilty Jan. 15 for his role in a $325 million healthcare fraud scheme that involved falsely diagnosing patients with various degenerative diseases and then administering chemotherapy and other toxic drugs to patients based on the false diagnoses, according to the Department of Justice.

Here are five healthcare organizations that entered into settlements to resolve billing fraud allegations in the past two months:

A Tennessee physician was charged for his alleged role in a $7 million fraud scheme involving false Medicare claims, according to the Department of Justice.

Healthcare politics are heating up in Florida this year.  

After Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes filed a motion last month to get patient-related felony charges dismissed in her indictment, federal prosecutors filed a response detailing allegations of inaccurate test results and the harm they caused those patients, reports The Mercury News, a Silicon Valley newspaper.

A Cigna subsidiary in Texas filed a lawsuit that alleges three dissolved clinics, their owner, a manager and managing physicians defrauded the health insurer through a billing scheme.

Tennessee residents suing Ballad Health for an anticompetitive board structure appealed a judge's decision to dismiss the case, the Bristol Herald Courier reports.