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Nurse Charged in Patient's Death; Doc's Poison Trial to Start; Fake PA Gets 5 Years

— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

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An Iowa nurse accused of failing to suction the airway of a nursing home resident has been in the patient's death. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

The trial for Raynaldo Ortiz, MD, the Dallas anesthesiologist accused of , begins on Monday. (FOX4)

A new lawsuit alleges that a Georgia hospital , then failed to revive him, despite knowing about the mistake for hours. (Atlanta News First)

A teenager who posed as a physician assistant at two Texas hospitals has been , to run concurrently. (KRIS 6 News)

Some 300 former patients of Chicago gynecologist Fabio Ortega, MD, are claiming it did nothing to protect them. Ortega previously pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two patients in 2021. (NBC 5)

Miami Beach doctor Jeffrey Kamlet, MD, has in a case that originally involved accusations of sex crimes and human trafficking of minors. (NBC 6)

David Healey, MD, the Rhode Island doctor accused of molesting a 7-year-old girl, has voluntarily . (WPRI)

North Carolina physician Wendell Lewis Randall, MD, was sentenced to for allowing other unqualified medical providers to use his DEA registration number to prescribe buprenorphine (Suboxone) in his name. (WDBJ)

Texas physician Mohammad Athari, MD, will pay $1.8 million to settle claims that he falsely billed Medicare for services that weren't medically necessary, and for illegal referrals under the Stark Law, .

Criminal charges against a New York nurse who was accused of slamming down a newborn. (CBS New York)

A group of private lawyers partnered with state attorneys general to pull from Medicaid fraud cases against Centene, one of the country's largest insurers. (New York Times)

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    Kristina Fiore leads MedPage’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com.