On the eve of a months-long jury trial, California and Sutter Health reached a settlement in principle Wednesday to resolve antitrust claims against Northern California’s largest health care provider.
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A Texas federal judge Tuesday invalidated Obama-era protections for patients seeking transgender or abortion-related care, concluding they violate the religious rights of medical providers who object to performing such treatments.
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A large majority of Americans support the creation of a national health insurance plan, according to a new poll.
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A year after Hurricane Michael, the Florida county hardest hit by the Category 5 storm is still in crisis: Thousands in Bay County are homeless, medical care and housing are at a premium, domestic violence has become a problem and severely diminished mental health services are overwhelmed.
Read moreHealth and Human Services touted two Medicare law changes proposed Wednesday by the Trump administration, saying they will enable specialty clinicians to share data with a patient’s primary care physician, coordinating better care.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit heard arguments Monday over a Mississippi law that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, as the three-judge panel was asked to overturn an order striking down the law.
Read moreA Philadelphia nonprofit’s plan to open the nation’s first supervised injection site for drug users was given the green light Wednesday when a federal judge ruled that such establishments do not violate federal law.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of Georgia’s restrictive anti-abortion law that makes it nearly impossible for women to get an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
Read moreAfter a federal judge upheld several controversial Virginia abortion laws including a 24-waiting period, pro-abortion rights advocates say there is still much work to be done in eliminating obstacles for access to the procedure.
Read moreLawyers for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warned a 10th Circuit panel Wednesday of the consequences of a federal judge’s decision to throw out the department’s budget-neutral approach to designing risk adjustment.
Read moreTwo days of negotiations have yielded a tentative agreement between Kaiser Permanente and 80,000 of its union workers, staving off a nationwide strike set for Oct. 14.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders released a new plan Tuesday to tax the “extreme wealth” of the top 0.1% of U.S. households, which he says would help pay for his flagship Medicare for All health care proposal.
Read moreTwo Nebraskans sued the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for delaying until October 2020 a voter-mandated expansion of Medicaid that they say will deprive them of healthcare for a year and cost the state more than $150 million in federal funding.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he’ll tell President Donald Trump that the United Kingdom’s state-funded health service will be off the table in any trade negotiations, and that the United States will have to open its markets to British goods if it wants to make a deal.
Read moreA Fourth Circuit judge showed little patience Wednesday as a government attorney defended a new Health and Human Services policy barring publicly funded family planning doctors from referring women for abortions.
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Calling the current way Medicaid dollars are allocated to states “outdated,” Tennessee Tuesday proposed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services give the state a $7.9 billion block grant to fund its health care services for low-income and disabled residents.
Read moreArizona’s prison health care system is so dysfunctional and risky for inmates that a federal judge should appoint a receiver to manage it, inmates’ attorneys said in a court filing Friday.
Read moreFederal prosecutors charged 30 San Francisco Bay Area health care professionals in an elaborate patients-for-cash kickback scheme revealed Thursday.
Read moreFighting to block what could be America’s first regulated space where drug users get high under medical supervision, a federal prosecutor argued in court Thursday that the law makes no room for so-called safe injection sites.
Read moreStanford Health Care, a nonprofit, claims Blue Shield of California owes it $14 million for providing medically necessary care, in Santa Clara County Court.
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