Anthem Class Action
A federal class action accuses Anthem of improperly denying claims for emergency services under ERISA plans.
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Lawsuit Claims Trump Trying to Limit Health Care for Some Insured
Patient advocates and healthcare groups sued the Trump administration Friday for what they claim is a move to curb health insurance access to people with pre-existing conditions.
Read moreCensus Data Show US Incomes Up, But Americans Still Struggling
Americans may be earning slightly more, but U.S Census Bureau data released Wednesday indicate many still struggle to afford basic necessities.
Read moreFederal Judge Hears GOP Effort to Kill Obamacare
As protesters chanted outside the courthouse, a federal judge in Texas heard arguments Wednesday over whether to block Obamacare as Texas’ lawsuit to invalidate the health care law on a technicality moves forward.
Read moreSouth Carolina Ordered to Keep Funding Planned Parenthood
A federal judge temporarily has blocked Governor Henry McMaster’s latest attempt to remove Planned Parenthood from South Carolina’s Medicaid program.
Read moreIllinois Approves Medical Pot as Opioid Alternative
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill Tuesday that will allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana as a replacement for opioid painkillers.
Read moreSix States Win Refund of Obamacare Fees
A federal judge in Texas ordered the government Tuesday evening to pay back six states nearly $840 million in questionable Obamacare fees on state Medicaid programs.
Read moreKentucky Governor Loses Fight With Medicaid Recipients
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin does not have legal standing to sue Medicaid recipients who challenged the state’s requirements that people work to receive benefits, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read more11th Circuit: AIDS Organization Didn’t Offer Kickbacks
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation did not violate the Anti-Kickback Statute when it gave its employees bonuses for referring HIV-positive patients to its own healthcare services, the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreRetirees Win One
A California appeals court found it improper Wednesday that a judge decertified a class of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory retirees who claim the Regents of the University of California cheated them of university-sponsored group health insurance.
Read moreCourt Affirms Bar on Indiana Abortion Ultrasound Law
The Seventh Circuit upheld an injunction Thursday against an Indiana law that makes women undergo an ultrasound at least 18 hours before an abortion, finding there is no medical justification for the rule.
Read moreJudge Requests More Info as Fetal-Burial Trial Wraps
At the end of a five-day trial over Texas’ fetal burial law, a federal judge said he is concerned not only with whether the law violates a woman’s right to abortion, but with whether it will also restrict women who are seeking other types of health care.
Read moreStates Stand Down
Finding a contingency plan to keep health insurance premiums steady has been successful, 19 state attorneys general on Wednesday voluntarily dismissed a challenge of the Trump administration’s gutting of Affordable Care Act subsidies for low-income Americans.
Read more11th Circuit Hears $36 Million Health Care Fraud Appeal
A former home-care agency owner serving time in federal prison took to the Eleventh Circuit Tuesday to appeal his conviction on charges that he spearheaded a multimillion-dollar scheme to submit false claims to Medicare.
Read moreShareholder Class Action
Directors are selling Envision Healthcare Corp. too cheaply through an unfair process to KKR entities, for $9.9 billion or $46 a share, shareholders say in a federal class action.
Read morePatients Blast Region-Based Organ Transplant Policy
The national network for organ sharing imposes arbitrary and illegal geographical boundaries for donations, according to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of patients waiting for liver transplants.
Read moreMan, That Hurts
Consumers claim in a class action that the fluticasone propionate nasal spray Flonase “can emit shards of glass when used,” and that Apotex did not recall all the bad batches, in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreTrump Administration Slashes ‘Obamacare’ Sign-Up Assistance
WASHINGTON (CN) – The federal agency tasked with supporting nonprofit programs that help enroll people in the Affordable Health Care
Read moreBig Pharma Assails $600M Demand by NY on Opioid Crisis
Casting itself as a scapegoat of the opioid epidemic, an drug-distribution trade group brought a federal complaint in protest of New York’s attempt to make Big Pharma pay $600 million toward the cost of treating drug abusers.
Read moreFederal Judge Blocks Kentucky’s Medicaid Work Requirements
Noting a “stunning lack” of consideration in Kentucky’s proposed new Medicaid plan, a federal judge on Friday blocked a first-of-its-kind bid by the state to tie Medicaid benefits to work requirements.
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