Legal & Regulatory Issues

Two medical equipment company and pharmacy owners were indicted as part of a $14.5 million Medicare fraud scheme. 

Ammon Bundy, a former candidate for Idaho governor and founder of the activist People's Rights Network, pleaded guilty Jan. 23 to trespassing outside St. Luke's Meridian (Idaho) Medical Center, according to Idaho Reports.

The Tulare (Calif.) Local Healthcare District will receive a $3 million settlement from its former attorney Bruce Greene, whose law firm allegedly breached its fiduciary duty and was professionally negligent under Tulare's previous ownership, according to The San Joaquin Valley…

A Chicago pharmacy owner was convicted for his role in a $25 million kickback scheme to obtain Medicare and other government payments. 

Colorado-based medical billing company Flatirons has agreed to refund 40 state residents after sending deceptive billing notices that stated they were "not a bill" but expected consumers to pay.  

The Justice Department opened a probe into Abbott Laboratories over 2022's baby formula shortage, The Washington Post reported Jan. 21. 

A 76-year-old woman is accused of fatally shooting her terminally ill husband at a Florida hospital campus over the weekend.

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.