Legal & Regulatory Issues

Mobile, Ala.-based Infirmary Health System, which includes IMC-Diagnostic and Medical Clinic, Diagnostic Physicians Group and Infirmary Medical Clinics, has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle allegations the health system violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the…

U.S. District Judge William Griesbach has dismissed the lawsuit Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) filed contesting the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires Congress members and their staffs to only enroll in health plans created under…

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington has ruled tax subsidies to low-and middle-income Americans may not be provided in states that use the federally-run health insurance exchanges.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System has agreed to a $190 million settlement with more than 7,000 patients who were allegedly photographed and videotaped by a gynecologist during their pelvic exams, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The following is a roundup of legislative developments affecting the healthcare industry that have been reported in the last two weeks.

On July 24, the House Rules Committee is set to mark up a resolution authorizing the House GOP to file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, according to a report from The Hill.

This is a roundup of recently filed healthcare industry lawsuits, lawsuit updates and legal settlements that have been reported in the last two weeks, beginning with the most recent.

Daytona Beach-based Halifax Health has spent $22.8 million over the past five years, defending itself against a whistle-blower lawsuit, according to a Daytona News-Journal report.

The Preventative Care Coverage Notification Act, sponsored by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mark Begich (D-Ala.), would require businesses to inform prospective and current employees whether they provide free contraception coverage in their health plans, according to a report from…

Acting Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Sloan D. Gibson has told the Senate VA Committee it will cost $17.6 billion over the next three years to remedy the problems plaguing the VA, including secret wait lists, according to…