A federal grand jury indicted Anar Rustamov, 38, of Azerbaijan on 14 counts of healthcare fraud. The complex conspiracy allegedly involved billing Medicare Advantage for medical equipment that providers never ordered. Rustamov is currently a fugitive from justice. 

The incident left John Douglas Cox, a mechanic in Washington’s Clark County, partially paralyzed after physicians failed to promptly diagnose and treat a spinal infection.  

Authorities said Shane Daley, 40, began making threatening calls mere hours after Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a hotel in Manhattan. Daley awaits sentencing and faces up to five years in prison.

Judge Brian Murphy with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts sided with the American Academy of Pediatrics and other plaintiffs who challenged the authority of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to effectively remove the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices from the process put in place to make changes to CDC vaccine recommendations. 

A jury sentenced the former cardiovascular ICU nurse to death for intentionally murdering multiple heart patients. In one TV interview, he said the power associated with the murders became "an addiction" over time. 

The caper was carried out by a former employee of Nuance Communications, a Microsoft subsidiary. According to court documents, the man used his credentials to access patient data from 1.3 million patients at Geisinger. Police said they found the trove stored on a flash drive in his car.

GuardDog admitted to accessing medical histories from patients stored on Epic’s platform, selling some of them to law firms engaged in unrelated civil litigation. The primary defendant in Epic’s lawsuit, Health Gorilla, maintains it did nothing wrong and accuses Epic of stifling interoperability.

In its complaint, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare said it cleared an unnamed female patient for discharge on Oct. 6, 2025. Despite setting her up with transportation and coordinating with family, she refused to leave.