Mayo Clinic Develops Guidelines Against Opioid Abuse
Nearly one-third of U.S. patients who undergo one of 25 common surgeries do not take the opioid painkillers as they were prescribed, the Mayo Clinic reported on Thursday.
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Abortion Clinics Win Battle With Ohio in Sixth Circuit
An Ohio law that revokes funding from abortion providers for unrelated federal health care programs is unconstitutional, a Sixth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday.
Read morePuerto Rico Residents Say Feds Shortchanging Them on Health Care
Ten residents of Puerto Rico claim in court that the federal government is discriminating against U.S. citizens who reside in the island by providing them with fewer health care benefits than to those offered to residents in any of the 50 states.
Read moreDemocratic States Fight Texas’ Attempt to Kill Obamacare
Sixteen Democratic attorneys general intervened Monday in Texas’ lawsuit to kill Obamacare, disagreeing that the Republican-controlled Congress’ gutting of the individual mandate tax penalty last year leaves the law unconstitutional.
Read moreCalifornia Bill Would Create Health Care Price Controls
California’s government would set prices for hospital stays, doctor visits and other health care services under legislation introduced Monday, vastly remaking the industry in a bid to lower health care costs.
Read moreMississippi Abortion Laws Challenged in Federal Court
The Center for Reproductive Rights sued Mississippi officials Monday to block a new set of laws the group says are designed to cut off a woman’s constitutionally protected right to abortion care.
Read moreMass. Hospital Fights Liability on Murderous Ex-Patient
Attorneys for a hospital whose schizophrenic patient murdered an old woman in front of her young grandchild clamored for immunity Thursday at a hearing of the high court in Massachusetts.
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The Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed Tuesday an injunction stopping Banner Health Network and others from enforcing liens for the balance between what the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System paid for its members’ health care and the hospitals’ customary charges, as federal law pre-empts the hospitals’ contracts with the system.
Read moreNinth Circuit Reverses Decision Against Medi-Cal
The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court decision Monday that has left hospitals in states neighboring California saying they lost millions in underpaid claims.
Read moreCalifornia Calls Out Sutter Health on Antitrust Claims
Accusing one of the state’s largest health care providers of price gouging and bullying insurers, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday announced an antitrust lawsuit against Sutter Health.
Read moreContraception-Opposed Nuns Fight for Standing in State Challenge
The Third Circuit seemed inclined Friday to let Catholic nuns intervene in a legal battle between states and the Trump administration over the contraceptive mandate in the federal health care law.
Read moreLawsuit Accusing Hospital of Underfunding Pension Plan May Continue
A federal judge on Thursday indicated he would keep alive a five-year-old proposed class action accusing a hospital system with ties to the Catholic Church of exploiting a religious exemption in federal law to underfund its employees’ pensions by $1.5 billion.
Read moreTexas Wants Feds to Restore Family-Planning Funds
Texas asked the Trump administration Thursday to reinstate Medicaid funding for low-income women’s health programs in the state, five years after refusing the money to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates.
Read moreDisclosure Law for Calif. Pregnancy Centers Stumbles at High Court
The Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it would strike down a California law that requires pregnancy centers to advertise abortion services.
Read moreAnti-Abortion Clinics Take Forced-Speech Claims to High Court
Much like attorneys have argued for the baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, the operator of pregnancy clinics that oppose abortion will bring free-speech claims Tuesday to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read morePrison Medical Director Claims Inmates Were Not Denied Health Care
The site medical director of an Arizona prison testified Wednesday that claims inmates were denied access to specialists were unfounded.
Read moreBygone Directors Defend Congressional Budget Office at House
Incensed by the recent criticisms of the Trump administration, a former leader of the Congressional Budget Office urged Congress on Wednesday to keep the agency nonpartisan.
Read moreStates Defend Obamacare’s Consumer Protections From Trump
Part of his long line of actions to defend the Affordable Care Act, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman led 12 other states on Wednesday in opposing a new rule that would gut the law’s consumer protections.
Read moreWork Requirement Approved for Arkansas Medicaid Expansion
The Trump administration on Monday approved Arkansas’ plan to require thousands of people on its Medicaid expansion to work or volunteer, making Arkansas the third state allowed to impose such restrictions on coverage for the poor.
Read moreSmall Insurer Claims Partial Victory in Obamacare Funding Tussle
A New Mexico-based health care provider won a partial but significant legal victory against the federal government Thursday, after a federal judge ruled the Department of Health and Human Services used flawed formulas to shift money from big insurers to small ones.
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