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A former nurse has been sentenced for diverting opioids from a Boston-area hospital. 

Prema Thekkek, her Vacaville, Calif.-based management company and six skilled nursing facilities owned or operated by Ms. Thekkek will pay $45.6 million to resolve allegations they submitted false claims by paying kickbacks to physicians. 

Michael Joyner, MD, has filed a lawsuit against Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic for allegedly violating his protected speech following his suspension after publicly criticizing the National Institutes of Health.

Seattle-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health has formed a partnership with One Medical, an Amazon subsidiary providing virtual and in-person primary care.

Delegates at the interim meeting of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates discussed a national ban on corporate control of practices by those outside of medicine.

Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, president of the American Medical Association, urged members to contact congressional representatives in an effort to eliminate looming Medicare pay cuts. He made the push during his speech at the 2023 AMA Interim Meeting on Nov. 10,…

Here are five studies that affect physicians that Becker's has reported on since Oct. 18:

Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin, who suffered cardiac arrest on the field during a January NFL game, has launched a scholarship program as a thank you to the medical staff at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center who treated him…

Here are six cases centering on False Claims Act violations, as reported by Becker's since Oct. 2:

A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York City completed the world's first whole eye and partial face transplant.