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From two New Jersey-based health systems reaching a settlement in a yearslong dispute, to CommonSpirit Health being hit with a lawsuit over a ransomware attack, here are seven recent lawsuits and settlements involving hospitals Becker's has reported since Dec. 21: 

Police said an Iowa certified nurse practitioner, who was found dead in the hospital where he worked, sexually assaulted nine patients, the Des Moines Register reported Jan. 10.

Two women have been charged in separate assaults against healthcare workers at a Mayo Clinic Health System hospital in Mankato, Minn., the Mankato Free Press reported Jan. 11. 

Medical device distributor Jet Medical and two related companies agreed to pay $745,000 in a Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act infringement case involving migraine headache devices not approved by the FDA. 

Khalid Satary, the owner of several labs in Georgia, Oklahoma and Louisiana, is a wanted fugitive for alleged fraud involving unnecessary cancer genetic testing that resulted in billing Medicare for over $547 million, according to HHS' Office of Inspector General.

Conyers, Ga., physician Aarti Pandya, MD, has agreed to pay $1.85 million to resolve allegations that she knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare.

Bayonne, N.J.-based CarePoint Health and Jersey City-based Alaris Health have reached a settlement, ending a legal argument that has spanned more than three years. 

A man working as a contractor died Jan. 9 after falling from the roof of the main Massachusetts General Hospital campus building, according to CBS New Boston.

Former Florida physician Michael Ligotti, DO, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in October in the Justice Department's largest addiction fraud treatment case ever, the department said Jan. 9.

The Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System scheduled a gender-affirming surgery for a transgender man, but canceled it the night before the procedure was set to take place. That was a violation of the Affordable Care Act, a federal court…