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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…

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Florida nursing home owner who had his 20-year prison sentence commuted by former President Donald Trump, according to a Jan. 6 Law360 report.

A drugstore in Columbia, S.C., will settle for $275,000 to resolve allegations of recordkeeping and dispensing violations after 46 bottles of cough syrup were misplaced. 

Three men who owned and operated a Texas genetic testing laboratory have been charged in an alleged $107 million Medicare fraud scheme. 

A South Carolina man was sentenced to over seven years in federal prison for stealing the identities of providers and Medicaid recipients and billing South Carolina Medicaid over $1 million in false claims. 

A cardiologist from Hot Springs, Ark., has agreed to pay $900,000 to settle allegations he submitted claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary placement of cardiac stents. 

Three women have been charged with third-degree theft and conspiracy to commit theft after plotting to steal more than $70,000 from Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System, NJ.com reported Jan. 5. 

New York gastroenterologist Morris Barnard, MD, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for healthcare fraud, the Justice Department said Jan. 5.

Kentucky cardiologist Kishor Vora, MD, paid $931,500 to settle allegations he took kickbacks from a testing lab, the Justice Department said Jan. 4.

Alan Pean, who was shot in his hospital room by an off-duty police officer during a mental health crisis, won $902,500 in a settlement with the city of Houston, the Texas Observer reported Jan. 4.