Whisteblowers filed a record 979 qui tam lawsuits in 2024, according to a Jan. 15 Justice Department report.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
A bill introduced in the Indiana Senate aims to further restrict abortion access by banning abortion-inducing drugs and requiring women seeking abortion due to rape or incest to file an affidavit, The Indiana Capital Chronicle reported Jan. 8.
A pharmacy in Camden, N.J., agreed to pay $625,000 to settle allegations of billing Medicare and Medicaid for medications that were never dispensed.
Idaho's abortion law conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, according to a lawsuit filed Jan. 14 by St. Luke's Health System.
Lewiston, Maine-based St. Mary's Health System is suing HHS for allegedly unlawfully withholding Medicare payments from the cash-strapped system, Maine Public Radio reported Jan. 14.
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A physician from Edinburg, Texas and his son pleaded guilty to conspiring to receive kickbacks in exchange for referring prescriptions to local pharmacies.
Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, part of HCA Healthcare, has filed an appeal challenging the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' decision to grant a certificate of need to AdventHealth for 26 additional acute care beds in Buncombe County,…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Federal Trade Commission on Jan. 13, arguing its changes to premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act are "unnecessary and unlawful." The FTC finalized changes to premerger notifications in October.
Sen. Ed Charbonneau, R-Ind., has introduced a bill to repeal the state's certificate of public advantage law, which allows hospital mergers that the Federal Trade Commission generally deems anticompetitive.
From UnitedHealth asking a judge to dismiss a challenge to its acquisition of Amedisys, to physicians suing a California hospital over a new staffing group contract, here are 11 healthcare industry lawsuits, settlements and legal developments that Becker's has reported…