Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai is facing allegations of appropriating the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic’s reputation and assets without compensation in a $150 million lawsuit.

Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health has revised its policy requiring kidney transplant candidates to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, according to New Hampshire’s attorney general. 

Gilead Sciences reached a settlement with the Justice Department and HHS that resolves a five-year legal dispute regarding patents for its HIV prevention drugs, Truvada and Descovy. 

A Texas physician was sentenced to 10 years in prison for causing the submission of more than $70 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces and genetic tests ordered through a telemarketing scheme.

The former CEO of a Texas hospital has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for his role in conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute.

Whisteblowers filed a record 979 qui tam lawsuits in 2024, according to a Jan. 15 Justice Department report. 

Idaho’s abortion law conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, according to a lawsuit filed Jan. 14 by St. Luke’s Health System. 

Lewiston, Maine-based St. Mary’s Health System is suing HHS for allegedly unlawfully withholding Medicare payments from the cash-strapped system, Maine Public Radio reported Jan. 14.

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, part of HCA Healthcare, has filed an appeal challenging the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to grant a certificate of need to AdventHealth for 26 additional acute care beds in Bunco…

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Federal Trade Commission on Jan. 13, arguing its changes to premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act are “unnecessary and unlawful.” The FTC finalized changes to premerger notifications in Octob…