Family Equality brought a federal complaint over Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s refusal to enforce an Obama-era program that “prohibits discrimination based on age, disability, sex, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity in grant programs funded by HHS.”
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Four months after the Trump administration removed a nondiscrimination barrier on health or welfare organizations seeking federal grants, a trio of advocacy groups filed suit Thursday for an injunction.
Read moreA whistleblower complaint filed on Thursday claims the Department of Health and Human Services failed to follow safety protocols when health workers met American evacuees of the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
Read moreOn Thursday, the state of California and a woman’s health clinic asked a federal judge to stave off new abortion-related regulations, saying they would imperil the health care of thousands of low-income women who rely on such clinics.
Read moreTwelve hospitals, in four states, sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he illegally reduced the number of residents they could claim per year under a Medicare program for hospitals to train medical residents.
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A government watchdog plans to launch a nationwide probe into how telemarketers may be getting hold of seniors’ personal Medicare information, a red flag for potential fraud.
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A federal judge signaled Wednesday he will likely overturn a Trump administration rule that blocks states from directly deducting union dues from hundreds of thousands of in-home health care workers’ paychecks.
Read morePlanned Parenthood of Maryland sued Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he arbitrarily changed benefit reimbursement rules, imposing more than $1 billion in additional costs on it, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and its civil rights.
Read moreWashington state sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he is unconstitutionally pre-empting state and federal laws by requiring health insurers to send two bills to enrollees each month, one of them for “only the comparatively miniscule cost of covering abortion services.”
Read moreLed by California, a coalition of six states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Thursday over what they consider insidious restrictions on reproductive rights and barriers to insurance coverage for abortions.
Read moreThe Department of Health and Human Services can enforce a new national policy governing the allocation of donated livers to transplant patients while a lawsuit challenging the policy is pending in federal court, a federal court judge in Georgia ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe Trump administration announced Tuesday a plan that offers free access to PrEP, the daily pill regimen that prevents HIV infection among users who have not yet contracted the disease.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to let medical workers refuse services, including abortions, based on their religious beliefs and moral objections.
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 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 moreHouse Democrats on Thursday renewed pressure to obtain critical records on the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance family separation policy in light of a watchdog report detailing psychological trauma children experienced at facilities throughout the United States.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion pledge to help states fight the opioid crisis earned cautious celebration Wednesday from groups on the epidemic’s front lines.
Read moreAn 11th Circuit panel heard arguments Thursday over a proposed policy change that would affect how patients on the liver-transplant waiting list would receive their new, life-saving organs.
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