A Louisiana clinic owner has been sentenced to over six years in prison for misdiagnosing children with mental illnesses and fraudulently billing Medicaid upward of $1.8 million. 

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is being accused of infringing on the patent of a diagnostic technology, according to an amended federal lawsuit filed Jan. 18.

The New Mexico attorney general's office is investigating Gallup-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services, NBC affiliate KOB reported Jan. 19. 

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From a Florida physician getting 20 years in prison for the "largest ever" case of its kind, to a New York gastroenterologist getting 30 months in prison for a Medicare fraud scheme, here are 13 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's has reported since Dec. 29. 

A Hawaii OB-GYN can keep $205,000 in Medicaid payments after the state's supreme court ruled in a long-running dispute over which physicians can be considered primary care providers, the American Medical Association reported Jan. 18. 

Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Health has agreed to pay $180,000 to resolve allegations it denied a deaf woman a job because of her disability.

A federal jury convicted a 23-year-old Michigan woman for committing fraud in a yearslong pharmaceutical "coupon" case totaling $65 million, according to the Justice Department. 

A federal judge sentenced a former clinical research coordinator to three years in prison Jan. 12 in a case concerning a confirmatory trial for a pediatric asthma drug, according to the Justice Department. 

Birmingham, Ala.-based medical billing company Amvik has agreed to pay $153,300 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to the Connecticut Medicaid program for applied behavior analysis services. 

OB-GYN Vernon Cannon, MD, PhD, and his former employer Downers Grove, Ill.-based Duly Health and Care, formerly DuPage Medical Group, were hit with seven misconduct lawsuits brought by patients, according to a Jan. 11 news release shared with Becker's.

California's attorney general filed suit against three pharmacy benefit managers and three drugmakers Jan. 12 with the accusation of "aggressively hiking" the price of insulin. 

A North Carolina lab owner was convicted by a federal jury for his role in a scheme to defraud the state's Medicaid program with medically unnecessary urine tests. 

A man was arrested Jan. 5 after allegedly making threats about Tulsa, Okla.-based Saint Francis Hospital to a gas station clerk and posting online, police said in a statement on their Facebook page.

A Mississippi orthopedic clinic and its owner have agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle allegations he overbilled Medicare and Medicaid for viscosupplementation agents, according to the Justice Department. 

Two emergency medical service workers in Sangamon County, Ill., are facing first-degree murder charges after one of their patients died of compressional and positional asphyxia, NBC affiliate KCBD reported Jan. 11.

A nurse practitioner filed a lawsuit against CVS Health Jan. 11, alleging the company fired her for refusing to prescribe contraceptives and drugs that can induce abortion. 

Three hospitals or health systems agreed to settle self-reported fraud claims in November and December, according to the HHS Office of Inspector General. 

From two New Jersey-based health systems reaching a settlement in a yearslong dispute, to CommonSpirit Health being hit with a lawsuit over a ransomware attack, here are seven recent lawsuits and settlements involving hospitals Becker's has reported since Dec. 21: 

Police said an Iowa certified nurse practitioner, who was found dead in the hospital where he worked, sexually assaulted nine patients, the Des Moines Register reported Jan. 10.