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.
The company confirmed the number of victims in filings with the federal government and the state of Maine. The data breach was discovered in October 2025, but it began in November 2024. Hackers were siphoning protected health information for roughly a year.
A team of legal and medical experts conducted a mock trial that entailed a series of hypothetical cases involving AI, sharing their findings in Nature Health.
Teflyon Cameron’s sentence was announced on Monday. She pleaded guilty for her role in a scheme that sent kickbacks to doctors for medically unnecessary orders. The U.S. Department of Justice said the conspiracy went on for “several years.
The nonprofit said it intends to appeal the U.S. District Court’s decision, though it will comply with the ruling for now. Five Tenet hospitals filed the lawsuit in April 2025, accusing Leapfrog of issuing ratings via a pay-to-play model.
The request to the court comes a month after the agency settled with Express Scripts, under the condition the company change its wholesale buying practices, pass on manufacturer rebates and support TrumpRx.gov. Now it's up to CVS Caremark and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx to make deals of their own.
Faranak Firozan, 47, is a cybersecurity expert at Nvidia who regularly spoke on the topic of “cyber laundering.” Prosecutors in California allege she submitted fraudulent medical claims to an employer-sponsored insurance plan, bilking Cigna out of $100,000.
Sixty-one-year-old Lilit Gagikovna Baltaian, MD, is on the run after being convicted of fraudulently billing Medicare alongside co-conspirators at home health agencies. A federal court in California sentenced her to 54 months in prison.
Dr. Prateek Joshi, with the NHS hospital in Derby, England, was taking his wife, also a highly regarded physician, and three young children from India to the U.K. to start a new chapter.
The doctor is accused of using fake credentials for several months and performing approximately 50 procedures. This is the second time in recent months someone has been accused of impersonating a heart specialist and treating patients.
The insurer alleges The Guardian misrepresented the facts in a May 21 exposé that accused the insurer of pressuring nursing homes to delay and deny hospital transfers.
Evoke Health Care Management was accused of disseminating over 68,500 illegal ads that linked to a marketing call center, rather than actual addiction treatment services.
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association—a trade lobby representing pharmacy benefit managers—argues a state law that would force companies to divest from drugstores could leave patients without access to critical medications.