PatientRightsAdvocate.org sued the American Medical Association on Aug. 13, seeking to void the AMA’s copyright over the CPT code set so the patient advocacy group can republish the codes online for free, according to court documents reviewed by Becker’s.  The…

A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department’s discrimination case against Harvard University that alleged the institution failed to protect students from harassment on campus.  The Justice Department sued Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard in March, seeking to force repayment of federal…

A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers introduced legislation Aug. 6 that would bar hospitals and other Medicare-participating facilities from forcing nurses to work mandatory overtime, backed by civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation. The Nurse Overtime and Patient…

A federal appeals court has ruled that the government’s methodology for calculating the qualifying payment amount within the No Surprises Act’s arbitration process is partly unlawful, a decision that could force insurers to recalculate QPAs and raise some benchmark payments.…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 10 overhauling the federal childhood vaccine schedule, calling for the MMR vaccine to be split into three separate shots and narrowing the list of immunizations recommended for children.  The order drew swift…

A new CMS final rule will prevent federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding from going toward gender-affirming care for youths. The rule, which Becker’s reviewed Aug. 11, will go into effect Oct. 13. It blocks states from using Medicaid…

A federal judge has thrown out a False Claims Act lawsuit accusing Sentara Health Plans of fraudulently inflating ACA marketplace premiums in Virginia after multiple large insurer competitors left the market in 2017. Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Dillon found…

Oroville (Calif.) Hospital and its parent company, OroHealth Corp., filed an Aug. 4 lawsuit against the hospital’s former President and CEO Robert Wentz, alleging he held a majority stake in a company that owns the hospital’s leased medical clinic and…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Aug. 10 that seeks to overhaul childhood vaccine schedules at the federal level, calling for separate shots in place of the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and narrowing the list of immunizations recommended for all…

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill Aug. 7 that authorizes the commonwealth to seize the shuttered Norwood (Mass.) Hospital through eminent domain and open a path for a nonprofit operator to take over the facility. Dallas-based Steward Health Care,…