The Justice Department has accused NewYork-Presbyterian, a health system based in New York City, of stifling competition through restrictive payer contracts, according to a lawsuit filed March 26. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District for the Southern District of…
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Federal lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would cap patients’ insulin costs at $35 per month. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and John Kennedy, R-La., introduced the bill March 25. The $35 monthly price cap…
A Canadian religious group, Mission Fund, is suing UnitedHealth Group because the company did not include the group’s proposal for reporting on acquisition consequences in its 2026 proxy materials, according to a March 20 filing in the federal district court in Washington,…
From the owner of a California medical center charged in an alleged $11 million scheme to an Alabama physician sentenced in a telemedicine fraud case, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker’s has reported since March 6: 1. An…
As CMS considers requiring hospitals to obtain a unique national provider identifier for each hospital outpatient provider department, the American Hospital Association is urging the agency to alleviate the process. In February, President Donald Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act…
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CMS approved Minnesota’s plan to tackle Medicaid integrity concerns, according to a March 19 letter to the state’s Medicaid director. In January, CMS informed Minnesota of “several deficiencies” in the state’s Dec. 31 plan submission to resolve integrity concerns, which…
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has launched an investigation into alleged fraud in California’s hospice programs. In a March 23 letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Rep. James Comer — who chairs the committee — and other lawmakers…
Eugene Emergency Physicians, an Oregon-based emergency medicine group with about 41 providers in Lane County, is suing to block Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth’s planned partnership with ApolloMD, an Atlanta-based national physician staffing company, according to court documents shared with Becker’s. The…
Three nurse practitioners are seeking to appeal a California judge’s ruling, which upheld state law restricting nonphysicians with doctorate degrees from calling themselves “doctor,” according to federal appeals court documents. After pushback from California officials, the NPs have until April…
The U.S. government filed a lawsuit March 20 against Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., accusing the college of discrimination on claims it failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students during campus protests. The lawsuit is the latest development in a…