Arman Abovyan, a former medical director for substance abuse treatment centers in Florida, was properly convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to possess with intent to dispense controlled substances, the 11th Circuit ruled. Abovyan ordered excessive drug testing and prescribed Suboxone to his patients even though he was not licensed to do so.
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve a circuit split over a Trump administration rule denying federal funding to clinics that refer women for abortions.
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A federal court in California dismissed a suit against the Department of Health and Human Services relating to its 340B Program, through which certain hospitals and other providers who serve low-income patients receive drug discounts. The plaintiff health care providers claimed the department should have blocked changes made by several drug companies, which notified program participants that certain drugs wouldn’t be provided under the program to entities without an in-house pharmacy.
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A baby has been born following a uterus transplant for the first time ever in France, the hospital treating mother and infant said Wednesday.
Read morePark Nicollet Health Services owed a duty to Brian Short, who died by suicide after killing his wife and three children in 2015, that “was not contingent on its custody or control of Short,” an appeals court in Minnesota ruled, reviving wrongful death claims against the health care provider.
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A new report commissioned by medical journal The Lancet revealed a host of widespread policy failures that resulted in thousands of preventable deaths, worsened racial disparities and further widened the inequalities between rich and poor.
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The Department of Justice fought in the 11th Circuit Thursday to preserve the conviction of a pharmacist who prosecutors say participated in a half-baked scheme to fraudulently bill millions of dollars for topical creams.
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A 67-year-old man unhappy with the health care he’d received opened fire at a clinic Tuesday, killing one person and wounding four others, and bomb technicians were investigating a suspicious device left there and others at a motel where he was staying, authorities said.
Read moreIn a Fair Labor Standards Act dispute, weekly per diem benefits were improperly excluded from the regular rate of pay for two classes of clinician who worked for health care staffing company AMN Services, the Ninth Circuit ruled. Those benefits should be considered part of the rate of pay for the purpose of calculating overtime.
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President Biden said the objective is to “undo the damage that Trump has done” to the Affordable Care Act and to women’s reproductive health.
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California officials said Wednesday they will turn to a health care provider to fill the gaps in the state’s massive Covid-19 vaccination program after early efforts unevenly distributed the much-needed doses.
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Patrick Leahy, the Senate’s president pro tempore who is set to president over former President Trump’s second impeachment trial, was hospitalized Tuesday night after he began feeling ill in his office, according to a spokesperson.
Read moreA federal court in New York ordered the Indian Health Service to release to the New York Times a report it commissioned of a private investigation into “numerous acts of rape and sexual abuse” committed against Native American children by former IHS pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber. In 2018 and 2019, Weber was convicted of several charges in Montana and South Dakota.
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A trio of nurses and San Diego County can’t dodge liability for a man’s overdose death in jail, the Ninth Circuit found, in confirming a new standard of review for medical indifference to inmates.
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The Seventh Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in Indiana’s appeal of a ruling that found a state law requiring providers to report medical complications associated with abortions is unconstitutional.
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Hundreds of foreigners in France whose jobs expose them to high Covid-19 risks will be naturalized quickly for their commitment during the health crisis, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
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Pharmaceutical companies are holding out hope that the mRNA technology used to develop breakthrough Covid-19 vaccines is flexible enough to provide for seasonal shots in case immunity gained from initial vaccination is short-lived.
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The federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of a set of Arkansas abortion restrictions is once again being asked to rule on whether the four anti-abortion laws tangled up in court for years should finally take effect as early as Tuesday.
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While excitement and enthusiasm greeted the Western-developed coronavirus vaccine when it was rolled out, the Russian-made version has received a mixed response, with reports of empty Moscow clinics that offered the shot to health care workers and teachers — the first members of the public designated to receive it.
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In the waning days of the Trump administration, a federal judge is wrestling with whether to vacate federal rules that allow employers to opt out of paying for birth control on religious or moral grounds.
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