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Fred Harder, CEO of Hemet, Calif.-based Valley Health System, has resigned, just days before the hospital was due to report its financial status in bankruptcy court, according to a report by the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

Reinaldo Guerra of Miami, Fla., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud and one count of Medicare fraud, according to a news release from the United States Attorney General's Office of the Southern District of Florida.

A fourth executive from West Chester, Pa.-based Synthes pleaded guilty to charges originating with illegal clinical trials the company performed on Norian XR, a bone cement, in which three patients died, according to a report from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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