Kansas has become the first state to ban a common second-term abortion procedure, according to The New York Times.
Legal & Regulatory Issues
Seventeen law professors along with the International Center for Law and Economics have filed a friend-of-the-court brief requesting the full panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rehear the antitrust case against Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health…
Massachusetts' Health Policy Commission — an independent state agency responsible for reducing healthcare cost growth while improving care quality — would get more power under legislation unveiled by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy and House Majority Leader Ron Mariano (D-Quincy),…
CMS has fined health insurer Aetna $1 million over errors in its pharmacy network listings, according to a Hartford Courant report.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been hit with a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that it gave illegal incentives to employees and patients.
Advertisement
A new law in Arizona allows patients to order any clinical laboratory test without written authorization from a physician, according to a KJZZ report.
Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System has been hit with a lawsuit claiming it employs a vendor that is charging an excessive amount for providing patients with copies of their medical records, according to The News Tribune.
State lawmakers introduced 332 anti-abortion provisions in the first quarter of 2015, according to a new study by the reproductive health nonprofit Guttmacher Institute.
From a single-hospital system in Ohio agreeing to pay $10 million to settle kickback allegations to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling hospitals can't sue states over Medicaid reimbursement rates, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements.
Minneapolis-based Medtronic has agreed to pay the federal government $4.4 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act, according to the Department of Justice.