/healthcare-authority/policy-compliance?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Healthcare Authority Policy & Compliance Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:03:07 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349496?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349496 Johnson & Johnson health tech unit Biosense Webster's bill in an antitrust trial was upped from $147 million to $442 million after a California federal jury found it stifled competition by conditioning the provision of cardiac mapping services on purchases of cardiac catheters. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:38:27 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2350034?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2350034 The Texas attorney general's office told the state's Supreme Court that a lower court went too far by blocking an investigation into an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that allegedly had knowledge about outside parties performing gender-affirming care on minors, saying the court undermined the AG's investigative authority. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:25:35 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348857?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348857 The U.S. government has filed a False Claims Act suit against a Florida medical billing and compliance services company for allegedly filing claims to Medicare for more than $15 million in medically unnecessary genetic laboratory tests. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:18:49 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349847?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349847 More than a dozen Republican attorneys general challenging a Biden-era rule that protected gender-affirming care under the Affordable Care Act said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services can't keep the rule on the books just because the new administration is unlikely to enforce it. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:05:40 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349855?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349855 A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has reintroduced legislation that would reduce what the lawmakers called barriers to accessing lower-cost versions of biologic drugs, making an adjustment to how biosimilars are deemed interchangeable with their name-brand equivalents. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:04:51 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349928?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349928 Healthcare solutions company Owens & Minor said Thursday that it's abandoning its $1.36 billion plan to buy home-based care business Rotech Healthcare Holdings after the Federal Trade Commission's scrutiny proved too much to bear. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:49:44 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349957?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349957 Attorneys general from California, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey on Thursday urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to lift restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone, saying they aren't necessary under statutory requirements for an FDA drug safety program. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:26:39 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348339?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348339 Recent draft guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to expand the scope of what counts as the same qualifying single-source drug, which would significantly alter the timeline for modified drugs facing price controls and would likely draw legal challenges from innovator drug companies, say attorneys at Debevoise. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:34:54 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349874?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349874 Michigan's attorney general has asked a judge to strike down a state-law requirement that abortion patients be evaluated for coercion, after the judge upheld the screening while permanently blocking other abortion regulations last month. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:18:11 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349752?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349752 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has appointed an attorney to lead its civil rights office who brings more than 30 years of experience across the public sector and private practice, including as counsel for HHS during the George W. Bush administration. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:37:43 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349568?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349568 The New Jersey federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation accusing Express Scripts, CVS Caremark and other pharmacy benefit managers of conspiring to fix the prices of insulin on Wednesday refused to ship a case brought by the state of California back to state court. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:39:33 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349574?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349574 State lawmakers seeking to curb healthcare investment models they see as harmful to patients have sharpened their focus on real estate investment trusts, putting forth bills to restrict their ownership of healthcare real estate or increase oversight of such transactions. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:00:12 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2338709?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2338709 For the healthcare industry, the upward trend in styles of cyberattacks, costs, and entities targeted highlights the critical importance of proactive planning to help withstand the operational, legal and reputational turmoil that can follow a data breach, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:11:37 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349110?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2349110 A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday seemed unconvinced by Planned Parenthood's assertion that new federal grant requirements for a public health initiative aimed at preventing teen pregnancy are harmful enough to warrant a preliminary injunction. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:23:45 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348791?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348791 A New Jersey state court will allow Apple Inc. to inject itself into the state attorney general's high-profile lawsuit accusing TikTok of designing features that harm and cause addiction in children, allowing the manufacturer of the iPhone to argue, away from public view, that certain content in the lawsuit should be redacted. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:59:23 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348908?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348908 An Ohio-based nursing home operator has agreed to pay $3.61 million to settle False Claims Act allegations brought against it by the government over purportedly substandard and in some cases nonexistent care, according to a new announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:05:35 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348999?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348999 The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is rescinding post-Dobbs guidance from 2022 that emphasized medical providers' abortion care obligations under federal law and that assured federal law protected providers' clinical judgment, regardless of conflicting state laws or mandates. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:16:58 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348197?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348197 Fake and misinterpreted citations in a recent federal report focused on chronic disease in the U.S. are raising alarm bells that federal health officials may be trading in scientific rigor for cherry-picked evidence. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:43:59 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348921?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348921 A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday denied a petition from Cigna's Express Scripts and UnitedHealth's Optum seeking to reverse discovery orders allowing certain personnel files and internal communications into the multidistrict opioid litigation, finding that the two pharmacy benefit managers failed to show extraordinary abuses justifying relief. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:03:04 +0000 /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348204?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/policy-compliance/articles/2348204 A Maine federal judge refused to let five military healthcare plan providers escape a False Claims Act suit alleging that they knowingly pocketed millions of dollars that were overpaid, holding that U.S. Department of Justice claims against them pass muster for now.