A former Iowa nurse pleaded guilty to stealing pain medication meant for more than 50 maternity patients and replacing it with saline, ABC affiliate KCRG reported Oct. 12.

Charles Adams, MD, and his practice must pay more than $27 million for violating the False Claims Act, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.

A Cook County, Ill., jury awarded $55.5 million to Shamond Butler, 20, a man who suffered brain injuries during his birth at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Oct. 12.

The man accused of kidnapping and killing a Detroit nurse pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Oct. 10, NBC affiliate WDIV reported.

Kaiser Permanente has reached a $200 million settlement with the California Department of Managed Health Care to resolve deficiencies in its delivery and management of behavioral healthcare. 

A former Georgia paramedic was sentenced to eight years in prison after a patient died in an ambulance crash, Fox affiliate WAGA reported Oct. 12.

More than 60 women filed a class-action lawsuit accusing a former Boston-based Brigham and Women's physician of sexual abuse, WBUR reported Oct. 11.

The Department of Defense is being sued by Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora over changes to insurance reimbursements, The Gazette reported Oct. 11.

Three physicians at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center have filed suit against owner Los Angeles County, alleging that the misconduct of one orthopedic surgeon was overlooked by management for years, NBC News reports.  

A Washington hospital nurse filed suit against a state insurance agency after being denied coverage for Wegovy, a weight management drug, The New York Times reported Oct. 10. 

Brian Hyatt, MD, the former leader of Arkansas' medical board, was arrested Oct. 9 for alleged Medicare fraud. Dr. Hyatt is also facing lawsuits from more than 40 former patients accusing him of holding them against their will when he ran the locked behavioral health unit at an Arkansas hospital, according to NBC News. 

A former Michigan certified nursing assistant has been charged with neglect and falsifying medical records after a patient's death.

A resident of Hudson Falls, N.Y., accused of stabbing two nurses at Saratoga Hospital is facing felony charges, CBS affiliate WRGB reported Oct. 8. 

A Connecticut nurse pleaded not guilty to five counts of tampering with an anxiety medication meant for patients.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill into law that aims to protect healthcare workers from surgical smoke by mandating the development and adoption of enforceable workplace protections. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom approved legislation directing the state's HHS to outline requirements for a federal wage application focused on universal healthcare coverage in partnership with the federal government, according to an Oct. 7 report from CBS Bay Area.

A California woman pleaded guilty to her role in a $359 million scheme to bill public and private insurers for unnecessary COVID-19 tests. 

A former rheumatologist at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital has agreed to stop practicing medicine amid allegations that he performed inappropriate pelvic and breast exams on patients. The physician, Derrick Todd, MD, has not worked at Brigham since July, according to an Oct. 5 report from The Boston Globe. 

A Great Neck, N.Y., man pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of more than $25 million.

Nurses from Philadelphia-based Temple University Hospital's outpatient clinics filed a class-action lawsuit alleging they were not paid for overtime, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Oct. 6.