The Southern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or Septa, has filed a lawsuit against Foster City, Calif.-based Gilead Sciences, the maker of $1,000-per-pill hepatitis C drug Sovaldi, accusing the company of "price-gouging," according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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The Health Equity and Accountability Act sets out to tackle health disparities, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities, and make some much-needed improvements, according to a blog by Sinsi Hernández-Cancio, Director of Health Equity at FamiliesUSA.
Richmond, Va.-based Health Diagnostic Laboratory is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Cigna, which alleges the clinical laboratory defrauded the health insurer out of $84 million, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch report.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging Ukrainian Village Pharmacy in Chicago violated the False Claims Act by giving customers caviar and Russian language TV Guides, as well as waiving co-payments, according to…
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The American Hospital Association and six other organizations representing hospitals have sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to avoid any further delays of the transition to the ICD-10 coding system.
Twenty-five Republican lawmakers, led by Sen. Tom Coburn, MD (R-Okla.) and Rep. Phil Roe, MD (R-Tenn.), are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a case challenging the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a medical board created under the Patient Protection…
Camp Hill, Pa.-based retail drugstore chain Rite Aid has paid the government $2.99 million to resolve allegations it improperly used gift cards as inducements to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to transfer their prescriptions to Rite Aid pharmacies in violation of…
Mayo Medical Laboratories' former CEO officially resigned Wednesday from his new position with Mayo competitor Quest Diagnostics, based in Madison, N.J., according to the Post-Bulletin.
Employees of Renton, Wash.-based nonprofit Providence Health and Services have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the 34-hospital system has underfunded their pension plans, according to a Puget Sound Business Journal report.