Pence Physician Resigns in Wake of Jackson Flap
Vice President Mike Pence’s personal physician resigned Friday in move seen tied to the collapse of Dr. Ronny Jackson’s nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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Lawsuit Claims Fertility Doctor Used His Own Sperm to Impregnate Patient
A DNA sample sent to Ancestry.com in 2017 led to the filing of a federal lawsuit Friday, as it was discovered that a fertility doctor allegedly used his own sperm to inseminate a patient in 1980.
Read moreFeds Charge Former Doctor, Partner in $250 Million Fraud Indictment
Two Southern California men were arrested Wednesday on the suspicion of filing more than $250 million in fraudulent medical bills connected to the 1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band surgery business.
Read moreSouth Florida Eye Doctor Gets 17 Years for Medicare Fraud
Dr. Salomon Melgen, a retinal specialist in Palm Beach County, Florida, was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison and ordered to pay $42,6 million on charges he bilked Medicare out of $73 million over two decades.
Read moreDoctor Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Against DC Hospital
Casting himself as a whistleblower in a federal complaint, a doctor says he lost his job after reporting Medicare overbilling to the D.C. City Council.
Read moreDoctor Gets 13-Year Stretch
A New York surgeon convicted of draining more than $7 million from Medicare was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in federal prison.
Read moreOhio Governor Signs Ban on Down Syndrome Abortion
Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Friday signed into law House Bill 214, which prohibits abortions if an unborn fetus has or may have Down syndrome.
Read moreSeventh Circuit Mulls $1M Award in CVS Defamation Case
Considering whether to uphold a $1 million jury award, the Seventh Circuit heard Friday from an Indianapolis attorney who claims CVS pharmacists acted with actual malice when they told his patients he was under investigation for running a pill mill.
Read moreEx-Gymnastics Doctor Gets 60 Years for Child Porn
The team doctor accused of sexually abusing dozens of young athletes on the U.S. gymnastics team and at Michigan State University was sentenced Thursday to 60 years on child pornography charges, and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Insurers Accused of Conspiring to Deny Lyme Disease Coverage
Twenty-eight people claim in a federal antitrust lawsuit that Lyme disease victims are being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for treatment because health insurers are denying coverage with bogus guidelines established by their paid consultants, who falsely say the disease can always be cured with a month of antibiotics.
Read moreClinic Challenges Missouri Regulation Aimed at Abortion Pills
For the second time this month, Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion law, claiming in its latest complaint that a required complication plan for providers of medication abortion is unconstitutional.
Read moreClinic Takes On Missouri’s ‘Same-Physician’ Abortion Requirement
Planned Parenthood is challenging Missouri’s abortion law, arguing a new provision requiring the same doctor to perform the procedure and discuss state-mandated medical information with patients will cause significant delays to women seeking care.
Read moreInsurer’s Limits on ER Coverage Slammed by Doctors Group
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield’s policy limiting coverage of emergency room visits for patients in Georgia, Kentucky and Missouri could be putting lives at risk, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Read moreDoctor Ejected at Border Fights Sudden Policy Change
Accusing the Department of Homeland Security of fumbling its own rules, a hospital that sits just across Lake Ontario from Canada claims in a federal complaint that U.S. border agents improperly held one of its doctors to visa requirements from which he is exempt.
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ACLU Fights Federal Limits on Access to Abortion Drug
The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii filed a federal lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration over federal restrictions that limit access to an abortion pill.
Read moreKentucky Fetal-Heartbeat Law Flatlines in Federal Court
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Kentucky law requiring abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and make the fetal heartbeat audible to the patient is unconstitutional.
Read moreEEOC Sues Texas Doctor for Religious Discrimination
A Dallas-area medical practice fired four employees for refusing to attend morning Bible discussions or after judging their personal lives, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday in a federal lawsuit.
Read moreUS Physicians Reaffirm Opposition to Legal Euthanasia
The American College of Physicians reaffirmed its opposition Monday to the expanding legalization of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, citing legal, clinical and other concerns in a position paper.
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Ohio High Court Expands Ban on Hospital Apology as Evidence
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an apology by a medical provider cannot be used as evidence in a civil lawsuit, even if the statement admits fault.
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