Legal & Regulatory Issues

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. 

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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…

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.