Stories about physicians and other healthcare professionals involved in lawsuits—as either a plaintiff or a defendant—or accused of breaking the law. Various legal updates or unusual stories in the news may land here.
Between July and December 2025, Irfan Fazil, MD used businesses including Yuma Mobile X-ray to bill Medicaid for thousands of unnecessary radiology services.
The states say they do not have enough time to enforce the rule, as CMS only issued an interim final rule this summer. The deadline for full compliance is Jan. 1.
The incident happened in 2019, when a third-party debt collector used by the diagnostics company had a hacker inside its network for over 8 months. In total, the incident exposed records from 27.5 million patients to hackers.
Independence Blue Cross, the largest medical insurance provider in the Philadelphia area, does not admit to wrongdoing. It was accused in a lawsuit backed by the U.S. Department of Justice of misrepresenting the severity of patient illnesses to juice risk-adjusted Medicare payments.
Senior Airman Tamera Moniq Bolden-Cleckley, of Boerne, Texas, was assigned to the 96th Surgical Operations Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base and had served as a radiologic technologist there since 2021.
Parmjit “Paul” Parmar, 55, from New Jersey has also been ordered to pay $125 million in restitution. The scheme to defraud investors was uncovered in 2017.
In a lawsuit, the daughters of a deceased patient accuse Alegent Health-Community Memorial Hospital of Missouri Valley of medical malpractice and negligence, alleging donations were harvested without proper consultation. It’s alleged that their father was not registered as an organ donor.
Reports indicate the doctor frequently changed orders and completed alternate exams or procedures without providing clinical documentation to justify the changes.
The physician was accused of pressuring Medicare patients into undergoing treatment they did not need. One patient allegedly received 42 different stents over an eight-year period.
The California Franchise Tax Board had charged that the rad and his sole proprietorship could be combined to constitute a "unitary business," subject to state taxation.
Anthem defended the policy in response to the lawsuit, contending patients shouldn’t have to worry about surprise medical bills when visiting in-network hospitals.
Boca Raton Rehabilitation Center called claims made in the lawsuit by a former employee, Nuella Joseph, “unsubstantiated.” Joseph, a nurse, said the facility has a cleanliness problem that led to bug infestations in resident rooms.