Nurse Charged With Killing Her Kids; Fake Psychiatrist Fooled NHS; Kid Chemo Battle

A Massachusetts nurse has been charged in the deaths of her three children. Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, allegedly strangled the young children (ages 8 months, 3 years, and 5 years) at home last month, and then tried to kill herself. She was arraigned last week from her hospital bed. (NBC News)

Zholia Alemi managed to work in the U.K.’s National Health Service as a psychiatrist for 20 years without a medical degree or any necessary qualifications. A U.K. court found her guilty on several counts of fraud, deception, and forgery. Alemi claimed to have graduated from the University of Auckland in New Zealand and sent regulators a forged letter of verification showing 6 years of medical training with good grades. (The Guardian)

The family of a non-verbal woman who had autism is suing Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego after the 27-year-old was given a peanut butter sandwich despite medical records showing that she had a peanut allergy. Jane Lee became unresponsive after eating the sandwich and was transferred to the intensive care unit, where she died 11 days later. (News 10)

Parents of a 5-year-old boy with leukemia are embroiled in a custody battle after refusing further chemotherapy treatments for him. After an initial round of chemo, the boy’s test results came back clear of cancer, and his parents said they wanted to treat him with natural remedies instead. Doctors called it a “fair assessment” that if the boy does not have further medical treatment, he will die. (FOX9)

A Connecticut Supreme Court case is testing the limits of the state’s granting of immunity against malpractice lawsuits during COVID-19. (CT Insider)

Florida Cardiology and 10 doctors will pay $2 million to resolve allegations that they submitted inflated claims to federal insurers, including for more stents than were actually inserted into patients, for radiofrequency ablations that weren’t performed by a qualifying provider, and for procedures and services performed while they were not in the U.S. (Orlando News)

Pharmacist Ronald Beasley was convicted on healthcare fraud charges for billing Medicare for expensive compounded drug creams that he never purchased or gave out. Instead, Beasley gave Medicare patients an inexpensive compounded drug cream that’s not actually covered by Medicare, pulling in more than $1 million from the federal insurer, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The Applied Behavior Center for Autism, an autism therapy provider, will pay $2 million to settle allegations that it bilked money from federal insurers through several billing schemes, including submitting upcoded and duplicate claims and claims already paid by third-party sources, the DOJ said.

New Jersey doctor Saurabh Patel, MD, pleaded guilty to his role in an alleged healthcare fraud scheme in which he authorized prescriptions for compounded medications that weren’t medically necessary, according to the DOJ.