/healthcare-authority/policy-compliance?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Healthcare Authority Policy & Compliance Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:02:35 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2372408?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2372408 The Trump administration has improperly "weaponized" federal laws against drug misbranding, false claims and female genital mutilation as part of a pressure campaign to undermine state protections for gender-affirming care, a coalition of state attorneys general argued in a new suit Friday. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:45:32 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2372536?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2372536 A coalition of 16 states pressed the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to reject the Trump administration's push to resume the mass termination of scientific research grants, saying a district judge had authority to pause the cuts. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:51:31 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2372043?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2372043 An Indiana health care network falsified employees' time sheets to avoid paying their overtime, a financial counselor claimed in a proposed class and collective action in federal court. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:25:20 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371427?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371427 The U.S. Department of Justice's recently effective data security requirements carry profound implications for how healthcare providers collect, store, share and use data — and approach vendor oversight — that go far beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:33:33 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371390?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371390 The North Carolina General Assembly has pushed through another round of hurricane relief aid to help the western swath of the state while lawmakers remain in talks to repeal a long-standing healthcare law that critics say hampers competition. Here are five North Carolina bills from the year's first half that saw the governor's stamp of approval or remain up for debate. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:29:54 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2372159?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2372159 A California federal judge will block Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster from refusing clinical support for its Carto cardio mapping systems from hospitals that use competitors' cardiac catheters, requiring the company to institute nondiscriminatory pricing for its services at hospitals regardless of which products they use. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:02:50 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371858?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371858 A Delaware federal court must apply a state statute requiring an expert affidavit in all medical malpractice suits, a hospital defendant told the U.S. Supreme Court, as key aspects of the Delaware law and similar statutes in 28 other states "should not be checked at the federal courthouse doors." Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:50:26 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371899?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371899 A hospital violated federal disability law when it fired a worker in its insurance department who didn't get the COVID-19 vaccine because she was allergic to it, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in Illinois federal court Thursday. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:51:54 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371850?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371850 The Trump administration on Thursday announced plans for a pilot project that would allow certain drugmakers to abandon upfront discounts in the 340B program and instead require hospitals to apply for rebates, testing an idea that would fundamentally reshape the long-running program. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:00:15 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2369536?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2369536 Two new laws in Texas — regulating elective intravenous therapy and reforming healthcare noncompetes — mark a pivotal shift in the regulatory framework for medical spas in the state, which must proactively adapt their operations and contractual practices, says Brad Cook at Munsch Hardt. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:29:53 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371405?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371405 Johnson & Johnson wrongly credited a former executive sales representative's sales to another worker, leading to lost earned commissions, and then fired him once he complained, the former employee said in a suit in Texas federal court. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:24:30 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371256?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371256 Biotechnology company Illumina Inc. has agreed to pay $9.8 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to put to rest a first-of-its-kind False Claims Act suit alleging the company violated cybersecurity regulations for medical devices, according to an announcement Wednesday. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:23:13 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371079?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371079 A New York federal judge refused Tuesday to nix counterclaims from North America's largest anesthesia provider, facing a Syracuse hospital's antitrust allegations, accusing the hospital of illegally recruiting away dozens of its clinicians and thus interfering with its employment agreements. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:06:47 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371161?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371161 CVS effectively forfeited its arbitration rights in proposed class action litigation accusing it of conspiring to block Medicare beneficiaries from accessing generic versions of prescription drugs, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled in denying the company's bid to enforce an arbitration agreement. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:11:43 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371377?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371377 Dr. Vinay Prasad's tenure as the top vaccine regulator at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ended abruptly this week following intense criticism from conservative activists who questioned his loyalty to President Donald Trump. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:59:02 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371115?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371115 An Illinois federal judge refused Tuesday to force a rival medical device coatings company to cough up old sales projections data so private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings can defend against a Federal Trade Commission challenge to its $627 million purchase of Surmodics. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:58:35 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371242?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371242 A Texas federal judge on Wednesday dismissed free speech claims brought against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and three specialty medical boards by a doctor group claiming the government and boards punished them for disapproving of COVID-19 vaccines and mandates.  Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:46:20 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371185?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371185 A lawsuit alleging that United Healthcare of North Carolina Inc. underpaid a hospital system by at least $1.6 million in reimbursements does not belong in federal court, a North Carolina federal judge ruled Monday. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:45:45 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371213?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2371213 After several months of wrangling over the terms of a $10 million generic drug price-fixing settlement, a Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday granted Florida's request to permanently drop its claims against Sandoz, finding that it would be an abuse of discretion to hold up the resolution any longer. Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:18:48 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2368082?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2368082 The recently announced partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to combat False Claims Act violations, following a multiyear trend of high-dollar DOJ recoveries, signals a long-term enforcement horizon with major implications for healthcare entities and whistleblowers, say attorneys at RJO.