From a health insurance company settling a data breach lawsuit to an appeals court ruling that hospitals can't challenge the method behind Medicare payments, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.

Ron O'Brien, the Franklin County prosecutor who recently charged a former Mount Carmel Hospital physician with the murder of 25 patients, won't charge the nurses or pharmacists at the health system as co-conspirators in the criminal complaint, according to a WOSU news report.

A woman pleaded guilty June 4 to embezzling nearly $558,000 from Saint Luke's Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke's Health System, according to the Department of Justice.

Rialto Capital Management and one of its former affiliates have agreed to pay $3.6 million to resolve allegations that they violated the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law and the False Claims Act, according to the Department of Justice.

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

A former physician at Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System, was charged June 5 in the deaths of 25 hospital patients, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

A federal class-action complaint filed May 30 alleges Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems and three top executives made false and misleading statements about the company's business that artificially inflated its stock price.

The former CMO of two Arizona hospitals that abruptly closed last year is urging a judge to alter a plan that calls for thousands of patients' medical records to be destroyed later this month, according to the Arizona Republic.

Burlington, Kan.-based Coffey Health System has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for incentive payments for meaningfully using electronic health records, according to the Department of Justice.

A circuit court judge upheld a 2015 decision from the Kentucky Attorney General's Office, affirming that the foundation for Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare is a public agency, and therefore should be subject to open records laws, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City will pay $2.8 million to settle allegations of fraudulent Medicaid billing practices, according to NBC-affiliate TV station KFOR.

From an Illinois health system sued over its billing practices to a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that seeks to clarify the legal boundaries of the patient-physician relationship, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines.

A patient recruiter for several Houston-area home health agencies was sentenced May 29 to more than 15 years in prison for her role in a $20 million fraud scheme that involved paying illegal kickbacks to physicians and submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare, according to the Department of Justice.

 Several civil rights groups sued the Trump administration May 28, alleging the "conscience protection" rule, which will allow healthcare workers to deny care based on religious beliefs, is unconstitutional, The Hill reports.

The founder and CEO of Trina Health, a chain of diabetes treatment clinics based in Sacramento, Calif., was sentenced to six months in federal prison and six months of home detention for conspiring to bribe an Alabama legislator, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.

Vidant Medical Center, a county-owned hospital in Greenville, N.C., is temporarily blocked from removing nine leaders appointed by the University of North Carolina from its board of trustees, according to The Laurinburg Exchange.

Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University Health System is accused of placing liens instead of billing patient insurance and Medicare, according to The Cook County Record.

A new court ruling in Minnesota seeks to clarify the legal boundaries of the patient-physician relationship, the Star Tribune reports.

The former COO of Butler (Pa.) Health System was hit with new charges on May 22 after being indicted earlier this year on more than three-dozen charges, including embezzlement, mail fraud and money laundering, according to the Department of Justice.

From a legal battle over hospital board changes to patients suing a for-profit hospital operator over emergency room charges, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits making headlines.