/healthcare-authority/policy-compliance?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Healthcare Authority Policy & Compliance Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:56:06 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2357343?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2357343 Cigna has launched an antitrust suit in New York federal court accusing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its Celgene subsidiary of fraudulently obtaining patents, filing sham litigation and paying off generic-drug makers to maintain a monopoly on their blockbuster blood-cancer drug Pomalyst. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:55:38 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2357591?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2357591 A subsidiary of Kaiser Aluminum discriminated against transgender employees by including an exclusion in its health plan barring coverage for medical treatments related to gender-affirming care, according to a new suit filed in Washington federal court. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:13:11 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2357621?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2357621 A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday ruled that CVS's pharmacy benefits manager owes the government $95 million for overbilling Medicare Part D-sponsored drugs, leaving the door open for the amount to be tripled later. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:23:31 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356913?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356913 The Arkansas Insurance Department is looking to sink a challenge to a state insurance regulation filed by a Teamsters healthcare plan, telling an Illinois federal judge that the regulation isn't preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and, besides, the plan can't sue the department. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:38:28 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356590?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356590 A Connecticut federal judge won't toss an amended class action claiming a healthcare technology company misled investors about a data platform it claimed to operate that didn't actually exist, ruling that statements about the platform's capabilities are not inactionable, forward-looking statements. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:51:07 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356986?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356986 The Fourth Circuit declined to revive a transgender man's constitutional claims against a religious hospital run by the University of Maryland Medical System over a canceled hysterectomy for gender dysphoria, concluding Tuesday that it couldn't grant further relief, and refused to consider a "late-breaking" argument for emotional distress damages. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:52:18 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356845?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356845 California enforcers on Monday asked the Ninth Circuit to overturn a district court's decision that a state law restricting "reverse payment" settlements between brand-name and generic-drug makers cannot be used to regulate deals that were struck outside the Golden State. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:20:43 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356708?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356708 A D.C. federal judge rejected a challenge to the federal government's approval of an audit by Johnson & Johnson into five hospitals' compliance with the 340B drug discount program. In Texas, a state appellate court has blocked San Antonio from going forward with a program that could fund travel for residents to access abortion care in other states. Here, Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at those and other healthcare rulings you may have missed over the last week. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:19:06 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356779?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356779 Boutique firm Nichols Liu LLP's co-founding partner Andy Liu has launched a solo practice to continue representing government contractors and healthcare industry clients in civil and criminal enforcement matters, telling Law360 Pulse Tuesday he wanted to go out on his own for greater control. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:04:22 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353453?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353453 A first-of-its-kind lawsuit in Kansas challenges a state law that plaintiffs say undermines a woman's right to make critical end-of-life decisions while pregnant and leaves doctors legally vulnerable. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:24:40 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356985?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356985 A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday denied the Trump administration's request to stay a recent order that it resume processing National Institutes of Health grant applications and releasing funds, warning that even one more day of delay would lead to irreparable harm. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:51:05 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356550?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356550 A California federal judge sentenced Ontrak Inc. founder Terren Peizer to 3½ years in prison Monday, following a first-of-its-kind insider trading conviction on accusations that he based a $20 million share sale on material nonpublic information that his health technology company was about to lose its biggest client, Cigna.  Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:37:09 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2356458 The Ninth Circuit on Monday partially reopened a lawsuit accusing Premera Blue Cross of unlawfully refusing to cover a minor's time in a wilderness therapy program and rehabilitation facility, saying the insurer should take another look at one of the claims. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:37:48 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2354870?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2354870 The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won't decide if Pennsylvania's medical malpractice insurance fund is a government entity for the purpose of determining if the state is authorized to dip into the money pool's $300 million budget surplus.  Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:00:22 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355769?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355769 A Texas appellate court blocked the city of San Antonio from going forward with a program that included funding for out-of-state travel for abortions, finding that the state has the right to challenge the program even though the funding has not yet been spent. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:39:28 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355697?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355697 Private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings LLC is seeking a court order for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce over a decade's worth of medical device approval applications, arguing the documents are necessary in its defense against a merger challenge by the federal government. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:09:30 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355234?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355234 Nasal spray maker Xlear Inc. is suing the Federal Trade Commission in Utah federal court, seeking a declaration that the agency is going beyond its statutory mandate by requiring scientific substantiation in marketing claims, even if the claims are not false and misleading. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:26 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2354931?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2354931 The U.S. Department of Labor's challenge to a pair of injunctions blocking Biden-era regulations that broaden who qualifies as an investment advice fiduciary under federal benefits law tops the list of cases benefits attorneys will be watching in the latter half of the year. Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:56:45 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355297?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355297 A Texas federal judge on Thursday agreed to vacate a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule finalized during the Biden administration that aimed to protect the privacy of patients seeking abortions and gender-affirming care, ruling that the HHS didn't have the authority to "fashion special protections" in areas of "great political significance." Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:25:08 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355030?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2355030 A North Carolina appeals court on Wednesday rejected an HCA Healthcare subsidiary's challenge to an award of a certificate of need allowing a rival to build a new acute care facility, backing a decision in favor of the state health department behind the award.