ѻý

Nurse Stormed U.S. Capitol? Doc Guilty of Wife's Murder; $120M Malpractice Award

<ѻý class="mpt-content-deck">— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts
MedpageToday
Legal Break over a blindfolded Lady Justice statue holding scales.

A Maine nurse has been in the storming of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. (WMTW)

California fertility doctor Eric Scott Sills, MD, was and staging it as an accident in 2016. (KTLA 5)

A New York hospital will have to in a malpractice verdict where resident physicians reportedly overlooked signs of a stroke on CT images. (Radiology Business)

More parents are now alleging that Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston . Five families now charge that their infant children's remains were discarded against their wishes during a 17-month period starting in August 2020. (Boston Herald)

Urologist Francis Martinis, MD, who appeared on the Bravo reality show "Below Deck," was arrested and accused of to obtain prescription drugs. (NBC New York)

A Texas man who threatened a Boston doctor who provides healthcare to transgender patients to making threats and faces 5 years in prison. (Boston.com)

Seattle Children's Hospital has from procuring documents his office had requested relating to gender transition policies and care provided to Texas children. (KXAN)

Indiana health system Community Health Network will pay $345 million to settle charges stemming from a whistleblower complaint that it tried to recruit doctors with outsized pay in order to get their profitable referrals, .

Massachusetts orthopedic surgeon Olarewaju Oladipo, MD, was convicted for his role in an upcoding scheme, in which he billed for more complex services than he provided, . Oladipo reportedly often billed for more than 60 patients per day, and sometimes more than 90 -- all while using billing codes corresponding to visits of 15, 25, 30, or even 45 minutes.

A U.S. District Court judge in New York has that expert witnesses prepared to testify in a lawsuit claiming that acetaminophen (Tylenol) can cause autism if mothers take it during pregnancy haven't been able to support their conclusions with scientific evidence. Judge Denise Cote wrote that the experts were "cherry-picking" data and that they "obscured the complexities, inconsistencies, and weaknesses in the underlying data." (Reuters)

New York cardiologist Niranjan Mittal, MD, has been for allegedly performing unnecessary vascular procedures and improperly billing public and private insurers, according to federal prosecutors.

Two companies will to resolve allegations that they submitted claims to federal healthcare programs for a higher level of remote cardiac monitoring than physicians had intended to order or that was medically necessary, federal prosecutors said.

  • author['full_name']

    Kristina Fiore leads ѻý’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com.