A Tennessee woman has been charged after treating thousands of patients without a nursing license, CBS affiliate WTVF reported Feb. 28.

New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers remains in effect after a state appeals court issued a stay Feb. 27, according to The Journal News. 

A federal judge ruled that New Hampshire's practice of temporarily boarding mental health patients in hospital emergency departments is an illegal seizure of the hospitals' property, radio station WBUR reported Feb. 27.

An Ohio physician pleaded guilty to 52 counts of healthcare and opioid fraud in federal court.

UPMC, its chair of cardiothoracic surgery and University of Pittsburgh Physicians agreed to pay $8.5M to the Justice Department to resolve a whistleblower suit brought by a former UPMC physician.

A jury on Feb. 23 found former Michigan home health nurse Judith Sobol guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a 3-year-old patient she treated while under the influence of methamphetamine, The Herald-Palladium.

A nurse at Memorial Hospital Pembroke in Pembroke Pines, Fla., was arrested after allegedly repeatedly slapping a patient and bathing him in cold water, Fox affiliate WSVN reported Feb. 23.

A patient care technician who was severely burned in an attack by a travel nurse last year at a New Jersey hospital has settled her Bergen County lawsuit for $5.7 million, Law360 reported Feb. 22. 

A proposal in the Colorado legislature would ban hospital "facility fees" if the care is provided to the patient via telehealth or in a clinic owned by the hospital but not on campus, The Denver Post reported Feb. 23.

A Cuyahoga County judge has dismissed a challenge by the former CEO of Cleveland-based MetroHealth related to his November firing, Law360 reported Feb. 22.

Boise, Ida.-based St. Luke's Health System has asked a judge to hold far-right leader Ammon Bundy in contempt after he posted defamatory comments about its CEO, the Idaho Statesmann reported Feb. 21. 

A grand jury has indicted a woman accused of fatally shooting her terminally ill husband at a Florida hospital campus in January, NBC affiliate WFLA reported Feb. 23. 

Dallas-based Cornerstone Healthcare Group and Houston-based Cornerstone Hospital Medical Center have agreed to pay more than $21.6 million to settle claims that the long-term acute care facility improperly billed Medicare.

The co-owner of a Connecticut-based insurance firm pleaded guilty to his role in a $40 million scheme to steal client healthcare funds and defraud lenders, the Justice Department said. 

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has clarified the name of a defendant in a lawsuit that alleges Alta Vista Regional Medical Center in Las Vegas, N.M., engaged in false advertising and overcharging patients, the Taos News reported Feb. 22.

A former employee of Chicago-based Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital has been charged for alleged theft and sale of 10 tanks of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas. 

A couple in Los Angeles is suing after they say their embryos were killed by toxic oil used at a fertility clinic.

A suspect in an arson investigation is in trouble with the law again after attacking a deputy inside Racine, Wis.-based Ascension All Saints Hospital early Feb. 20, Fox6 reported. 

From Centene paying $215 million to California to settle allegations it overcharged the state's Medicaid program, to two Louisiana health systems accused of sharing patient data without consent, here are 10 healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements Becker's has reported since Feb. 7: 

A New York pharmacist pleaded guilty to distributing and possessing oxycodone, the intent to distribute the opioid and nine counts of filing false tax returns.