/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 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:52:15 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2354000?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2354000 Spinal device maker Life Spine slapped its founder with a civil suit in Illinois state court Friday accusing him of embezzling millions of dollars from the company through fraudulent credit card charges for motorsports, a lavish Mexico vacation for his family, customized golf clubs, jewelry and a Porsche for his wife.  Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:53:42 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353468?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353468 Ohio urged the Sixth Circuit to send its case accusing Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics of driving up prescription drug prices through rebate schemes back to state court, arguing the case doesn't target any federal government work by the pharmacy benefit managers. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:45:52 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353672?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353672 A California federal judge has refused to certify a proposed class of HIV and AIDS patients alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. violated federal disability bias protections by making their medication harder to access, finding the proposed group failed to meet the commonality standards under federal law.  Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:26:23 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352951?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352951 A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday blocked the National Institutes of Health from cutting hundreds of grant programs to universities, hospitals and other organizations, saying that in his 40 years on the bench he had never seen such "palpable" racial and LGBTQ discrimination from the government. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:07:09 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352804?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352804 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.'s request to review a Third Circuit decision that more than 1,000 failure-to-warn claims over its osteoporosis drug Fosamax can continue despite the company's assertion that the litigation is barred by federal law. Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:57:24 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2326567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2326567 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the Third Circuit's dismissal of an anti-abortion pregnancy center's federal lawsuit challenging a subpoena from the New Jersey attorney general demanding information about its donors. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:36:23 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353302?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353302 Innovative Health is seeking a permanent injunction that would ban Johnson & Johnson health tech unit Biosense Webster from conditioning the provision of cardiac mapping services on purchases of cardiac catheters, after Innovative Health netted a $442 million trial win on its antitrust claims. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:32:27 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352678?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352678 Recent analyses of the Section 340B program's effectiveness in helping patients afford drugs in Minnesota reinforce concerns about the program's lack of transparency and underscore the need for further evaluation of whether legislative reform should be enacted, say William A. Sarraille at the University of Maryland, and Andrée-Anne Fournier and Molly Frean at Analysis Group. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:19:44 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353414?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353414 The Fifth Circuit has ruled a pair of flight ambulance providers cannot pursue their lawsuit seeking to enforce out-of-network billing dispute resolution awards against a health insurance company, saying there's no private right of action built into a 2022 law that protects patients from surprise medical bills. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:56:03 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353131?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353131 The New York-based owner of a Berks County, Pennsylvania, home care agency has been sentenced to spend a month in jail and repay $235,778 in fraudulently billed Medicaid claims, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office announced Friday. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:31:37 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353212?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2353212 Michigan's Henry Ford health system has ignored a subpoena from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seeking information into a worker's bias charge, according to a federal court filing from the agency seeking an order enforcing the request. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:59:53 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352890?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352890 CVS urged an Arkansas federal judge to block a new state law from taking effect that would ban pharmacy benefits managers from owning pharmacies in the state, arguing the law shirks the U.S. Constitution by tamping down competition and discriminating against out-of-state businesses. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:10:28 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352322?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352322 The Florida Attorney General's Office and Sandoz Inc. have told a Connecticut federal court they've fixed the problems the court identified with a generic drug price-fixing settlement after other states with claims in the case objected to a clause in the deal. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:31:09 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2351808?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2351808 As part of an expansive effort to tee up U.S. Supreme Court review, pharmaceutical industry-backed opponents of Medicare's drug price negotiations entered less-than-hospitable territory at the Sixth Circuit, where judges pointedly questioned a local business group's basis for challenging a national healthcare program. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:25:08 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352736?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352736 Humana and Aetna are facing new claims in a trio of suits filed in North Carolina federal court alleging they underpaid health systems for drugs purchased through the federal 340B drug discount program. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:34:26 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352789?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352789 The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday backed an Atlanta hospital's defeat of a lawsuit claiming it disciplined and fired two nurses who complained that a supervisor made derogatory comments about African employees, saying neither woman could overcome evidence of their misconduct. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:14:14 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352768?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352768 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' veto of a bill that would have repealed limits on noneconomic damages in fatal medical malpractice cases — despite state lawmakers' overwhelming support of the measure — signals broad concerns over how tort reform legislation could impact the insurance industry. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:36:12 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352303?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352303 A Seattle-based hospital system has been slapped with a proposed class action in Washington state court over claims that hundreds of patients suffered unwarranted pain and risk of infection because a staff member may have been pocketing painkillers. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:18:13 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352416?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352416 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced Wednesday he appointed eight new members to a vaccine advisory panel, just two days after he removed 17 existing members of the panel, which provides advice and guidance on the use of vaccines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:15:23 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352135?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2352135 The University of North Carolina's hospital system must face a discrimination lawsuit filed by a fired surgical resident, a North Carolina federal judge ruled Wednesday, tossing the system's motion to dismiss claims that the discharge decision was motivated by bias against the resident's mental health conditions.