Legal & Regulatory Issues

A 36-year-old woman pleaded guilty Oct. 19 in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to healthcare fraud and identity theft after she lied about her nursing credentials to work at a St. Louis hospital and teach nursing at a New…

Auto-enrollment for individuals purchasing plans on the public health insurance exchanges will take place after open enrollment ends Dec. 15, according to The Washington Post.

A California judge has reversed a jury ruling against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit associating ovarian cancer to talcum powder, according to a Bloomberg report.

Doug Ommen, Iowa's insurance commissioner, sent a letter to HHS and the Treasury department Monday announcing the state would withdraw its section 1332 waiver request, according to The Des Moines Register.

A federal law that requires emergency rooms to stabilize and treat all patients regardless of their ability to pay drives up the cost of healthcare and should be eliminated, according to Rep. Diane Black, RN, R-Tenn.

President Donald Trump is considering creating a bipartisan drug task force dedicated to investigating the rising costs of prescription drugs, according to Roll Call.

A U.S. judge is slated to review the current administration's decision to end cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers, according to Reuters.

A judge confirmed the $17.5 million award previously granted to David Newell, MD, a former neurosurgeon at Seattle-based Swedish Health, last Thursday, The Seattle Times reports.

Indiana Legal Services, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit law firm, and Indiana-based HealthLinc Community Health Centers have agreed to a medical-legal partnership.

Aetna faces a second class-action lawsuit alleging the insurer violated customers' privacy by inadvertently disclosing the HIV status of approximately 12,000 people, according to a Connecticut Law Tribune report.