Legal & Regulatory Issues

The Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit against owners of an Illinois healthcare company alleging they defrauded Medicare millions of dollars.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning tweeted his nominee for drug czar, Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., withdrew himself from consideration for the post, according to a report from The Washington Post.

The Georgia Supreme Court upheld the state's "certificate of need" law and said a surgical center could not expand without state approval when it issued an opinion Monday, according to Politically Georgia.

Two-year-old A.J. Burgess was scheduled to receive his father's left kidney in a life-saving transplant at Atlanta-based Emory University Hospital Oct. 3. The procedure did not occur. Although the hospital deemed A.J.'s father a match, his recent parole violation brought…

First Coast Cardiovascular Institute in Jacksonville, Fla., has agreed to pay $448,821 to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act, according to the Department of Justice.

Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced legislation Monday to repeal 2016 legislation that significantly limited the Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to crack down on opioid distributors suspected of wrongdoing.

Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, sent a letter to President Donald Trump Oct. 12, urging him to follow through on comments he made in August about declarating the nation's opioid crisis a national emergency.

Congress passed a law in April 2016, which effectively eliminated the Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to freeze suspicious shipments of opioids from drug distributors, according to a joint investigative report conducted by The Washington Post and "60 Minutes."

The Department of Justice called off its lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group claiming the Minnetonka, Minn.-based insurer submitted false claims to increase Medicare payments, Reuters reports.

Baltimore police charged a woman with first degree murder for fatally stabbing her husband during an altercation at Baltimore-based The Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to The Baltimore Sun.