Expert Analysis

Mass. UHC Fraud Suit Signals States' Medicaid FCA Push

Massachusetts' recently filed False Claims Act suit alleging UnitedHealthcare misrepresented the health status of ... (more story)

FDA Draft Guidance Maps Payor Strategy For Psychedelics

Recently revised guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will operationalize a framework permitting dr... (more story)

Denying Emergency Abortion Care Is A Liability Oversight

Health systems in states with abortion bans should consider that refusing to provide emergency abortion care carri... (more story)

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CVS Seeks Toss Of Hospitals' 340B Suits In NY, Mich.

CVS urged New York and Michigan federal courts to toss separate suits brought by hospital operators accusing the health giant of diverting savings from the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program to itself, saying t... (more story)

Texas Lab, Investors To Pay $24M In COVID-19 Testing Scheme

Owners of a Dallas medical testing laboratory and their investors will altogether pay $24 million to resolve allegations that they ran afoul of the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare ... (more story)

Kirkland, Sullivan & Cromwell Steer $2B ArisGlobal Deal

Dassault Systèmes has agreed to acquire ArisGlobal, an AI-driven software provider for the life sciences industry, from private equity firm Nordic Capital for up to $2 billion, the companies said Thursday.

Fannie Mae Drops $28M Suit Over Senior Living Loans Default

Fannie Mae has voluntarily dropped the remaining claims in its lawsuit accusing borrower Affinity Living Communities of defaulting on $28.3 million worth of loans from the government-backed lender, telling the... (more story)

Boston Scientific Settles With Stryker In Spine Device IP Fight

Boston Scientific and Stryker Corp. have reached a settlement to resolve a case in New Jersey federal court over Stryker's alleged efforts to create a back pain device that infringed a Boston Scientific patent.

Safety-Net Clinics Defend Insulin Suit Revival To Justices

Safety-net healthcare providers urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take on the revival of their proposed antitrust class action against Sanofi-Aventis, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca, arguing Wednesd... (more story)

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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Review Apple's ITC Loss Against Masimo

The full slate of Federal Circuit judges will not reconsider a panel's determination that Apple has infringed Masimo Corp.'s blood oxygen monitor patents in a high-profile case that led to some Apple Watch imp... (more story)

Apple Can't Get Judge To Toss Masimo's $634M Patent Verdict

Apple has lost its bid to dodge a jury's finding that it owes $634 million for infringing a Masimo Corp. patent after a California federal judge rejected the tech giant's challenge to how the court construed a... (more story)

Pa. Hospital Must Face Bulk Of Website Pixel Tracking Row

A Pennsylvania federal judge has mostly refused to toss a putative class action accusing Warren General Hospital of illegally deploying tracking technology that divulged website visitors' private health inform... (more story)

Fed. Circ. Vacates $12.7M Copyright Award Against Gov't

The Federal Circuit on Thursday vacated a $12.7 million copyright award against the federal government over unauthorized copies of software for a project on military health records, holding that the trial judg... (more story)

23andMe Bankruptcy Plan Bars Data Breach Suit In Calif.

A Missouri bankruptcy judge has told attorneys representing California the state can no longer press its data breach lawsuit against the reorganized 23andMe, finding the state court action is barred by the com... (more story)

Families Cite Geofence Ruling In Newborn Blood Testing Case

A group of parents suing the state of Michigan over the way newborn blood samples are collected and stored has asked a federal judge to revive its claims by citing recently decided U.S. Supreme Court precedent... (more story)

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Federal Bill Seeks CDC Set-Aside For Tribal Health

A coalition of U.S. lawmakers from New Mexico and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have introduced legislation that would guarantee that tribal nations have equal access to the Centers for Disease Control ... (more story)

Yale Age Test, Allergy Death, Wine Royalties: A Midyear Report

In the second half of 2026, Connecticut courts are being called upon to decide closely watched issues such as whether the state's largest hospital group violated federal disability and age discrimination laws ... (more story)

Mental Health Agency Sues Mass. Prison System For Records

A Massachusetts mental health legal advocacy committee has filed a lawsuit against the state's department of correction, claiming it was denied access to data about health services provided in one state prison... (more story)

Novo Asks NJ Judge To Stop Lilly's 'Deceptive' GLP-1 Ads

Novo Nordisk Inc. asked a New Jersey federal court Friday to block rival Eli Lilly & Co. from running ads allegedly comparing their respective GLP-1 drugs using "outdated" clinical trials and "false superiorit... (more story)

Surgical Co. Trims Tobacco Fee Suit In Texas

A Texas federal judge pared some claims from a proposed class action alleging that a surgical company wrongly imposed a surcharge on the health plans of workers who used tobacco, while opening discovery on oth... (more story)

UnitedHealth's $5M Demand Challenged By Wash. Dental Co.

A dental practice is urging a Washington federal court to stop UnitedHealth from withholding future reimbursements, saying the insurer has failed to fully explain its assertion that it overpaid the practice mo... (more story)