$13M Award for COVID Vax Refuser; Doc Sentenced for Threats to Blow Up Hospital

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

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Legal Break over a blindfolded Lady Justice statue holding scales.

A federal jury to a former employee of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan who said she was fired for refusing the COVID shot. (CBS Detroit)

Omar Marar, MD, who threatened to blow up a Michigan hospital, was . Marar reportedly was in an operating room when he became upset about malfunctioning equipment and threatened to get his bomb belt and blow everyone up. (ABC 12)

A man from Ireland Mackenzie Michalski in Budapest, according to authorities. (CBS News)

Maine doctor Peter O'Donnell, MD, has been charged with sex trafficking after authorities said he was running a massage parlor . (WABI)

Florida physician Gwyn Crump, MD, was arrested for his alleged involvement in a that killed a man in a wheelchair. (WTSP)

Four women who are suing Idaho after they were denied abortions for lethal fetal anomalies told a judge they felt like "" after having to leave their state to get medical care. (AP)

A Kentucky woman who wants an abortion to try to take down its near-total ban on the procedure. (The Hill)

A Florida ophthalmology practice will pay $1.3 million to resolve allegations that it received kickbacks for billing for unnecessary transcranial Doppler ultrasounds, .

Colorado's UCHealth will pay $23 million to resolve claims that it on certain emergency department visits, the DOJ said.

New Jersey cardiologist Fazal Panezai, MD, was after admitting to billing almost $2 million for visits that never happened or didn't take as long as he claimed. (Asbury Park Press)

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson in an attempt to shake up the federal 340B drug discount program. (Wall Street Journal)

The DOJ has UnitedHealth Group's $3.3 billion acquisition of home health company Amedisys. (Wall Street Journal)

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