Legal & Regulatory Issues

A federal appeals court has ruled Missouri cannot impose limitations that interfere with insurance navigators' ability to help consumers sign up for health coverage using HealthCare.gov, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

There have been updates concerning the state versions of the federal False Claims Act in both Maryland and Washington, according to a National Law Review report.

A proposed bill in Tennessee intends to update the law governing the state's Certificate of Public Advantage, a key statute that will significantly impact the planned merger of Johnson City, Tenn.-based Mountain States Health Alliance and Kingsport, Tenn.-based Wellmont Health…

Washington is not known, especially these days, as a place of consensus. However, there is at least one area of bipartisan, bicameral agreement: for better or worse, the health care system is rapidly changing.

The Lakewood, Ohio City Council recently hired Cleveland law firm Thompson Hine to represent Lakewood Hospital in negotiations with the Cleveland Clinic regarding the clinic's decision to close the hospital and open a family health center and emergency department in…

Hospital operators in Connecticut are urging legislators to reject a bill that would require hospitals to pay state property taxes, claiming the cost of these taxes would likely result in cutting costs elsewhere, such as through staff and service reductions,…

A labor union is suing financially struggling Doctors' Hospital of Michigan in Pontiac, seeking a temporary restraining order against the hospital to block about 40 layoffs, according to The Oakland Press.

From an AIDS foundation being hit with a $20 million kickback lawsuit to two major manufacturers of ultraviolet disinfection robots battling in court over advertisements, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements.

Richmond, Va.-based Health Diagnostics Laboratory and Alameda, Calif.-based Singulex have agreed to pay the federal government a combined $48.5 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act, according to the Department of Justice.

Kansas has become the first state to ban a common second-term abortion procedure, according to The New York Times.