‘Mafia Enforcer for Insurers’; Fake Doc Arrested After Manhunt; Fetal Autopsy Suit

Florida-based AdventHealth is suing MultiPlan, alleging an ongoing conspiracy to reduce out-of-network reimbursement rates. In the lawsuit, the health system charges that the company “knows it can get away with acting, in the words of an analyst, ‘like a mafia enforcer for insurers.'” (Becker’s Hospital Review)

A Utah man who prosecutors say pretended to be a doctor — and claimed he also had PhDs in immunology and naturopathic medicine — while selling a fake COVID “cure” was arrested after a 3-year manhunt. (CBS News)

Parents can proceed with a lawsuit alleging a Delaware hospital system performed an autopsy on their 16-week-old fetus without their consent. (Delaware Online)

While a woman who allegedly left her baby to die in a hospital bathroom earlier this year is facing murder charges, the hospital is also facing a lawsuit claiming there were opportunities for doctors and hospital staff to intervene and potentially save the child’s life. (KOB4)

A Minnesota jury found a pharmacy didn’t discriminate against a woman by refusing to fill her emergency contraception prescription, but it did find that pharmacist George Badeaux caused emotional harm in the amount of $25,000. (CNN)

Boston doctor Sudipta Mohanty, MD, is facing a federal charge for allegedly committing lewd acts in front of a 14-year-old girl on a flight last year. (NBC 10 Boston)

A Texas teenager who was convicted for posing as a physician assistant was arrested again, this time in Oklahoma, for continued alleged scams. (KRIS 6 News)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is facing a civil rights investigation after it turned over transgender patients’ medical records to the state’s attorney general. (AP)

A Florida man was arrested for allegedly claiming to be a veterinarian and operating on a pregnant dog that died of complications from the procedure. (AP)

Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System has filed a lawsuit to get Ammon Bundy to pay the tens of millions of dollars a jury decided he owes them. (Becker’s Hospital Review)

The Supreme Court has, for now, blocked Purdue Pharma’s multi-billion-dollar opioid settlement that would shield the Sackler family from civil lawsuits related to opioid abuse. (CNBC)

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