From lawsuits and litigation to criminal charges and fraud, here are 10 physician legal cases Becker's has covered since April 5:
- Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., is seeking legal action against the Committee of Interns and Residents, arguing the union violated the "no strike" clause in its contract.
- Iowa physician Amanda Moreno, DO, sued her former employer Mahaska Health Partnership for alleged discrimination.
- Anthony Dinh, MD, was charged with committing multiple fraud schemes that resulted in false billings to federal programs and theft from federally funded pandemic programs.
- Former physician Julian Omidi was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for defrauding private health insurance companies through his connection to the 1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band surgery business.
- Michigan physician Scott Cooper, MD, pleaded guilty to illegally distributing more than 7,000 oxycodone pills.
- Alexander, Ark.-based physician Joe David May, MD, pleaded guilty to 102 months in prison for his role in a $12 million scheme to defraud Tricare.
- Washington, D.C., physician Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, MD, was charged with alleged unlawful distribution of opioids in exchange for cash.
- Texas physician Oscar Lightner, MD, was convicted of operating a "pill mill" clinic and unlawfully prescribing more than 600,000 opioid pills in exchange for cash payments.
- Norman Wang, MD, a cardiologist and faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, filed suit against the school, its medical center and affiliated physician group for alleged discrimination and retaliation.
- New York electrophysiologist Leigh Ann Hutchinson, MD, sued her former employer South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore for decades of discrimination.