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FDA Draft Guidance Maps Payor Strategy For Psychedelics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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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)

Candid Health Wraps $120M Series D Funding Round

Autonomous revenue cycle management platform Candid Health, advised by Lowenstein Sandler LLP, on Wednesday revealed that it raised $120 million in its latest funding round, marking a three-times increase in v... (more story)

Fed. Circ. Panel Stands By Invalidated Spinal Fusion IP

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday said it won't rethink a panel's decision invalidating patent claims covering parts used to make expandable implant devices in spinal fusion surgeries that were the basis of a $... (more story)

This Week's Healthcare Earnings: UnitedHealth, J&J, Elevance

Payors UnitedHealth and Elevance and pharma giant Johnson & Johnson all raised their 2026 guidance after positive second quarters. Law360 has what you need to know from earnings this week.

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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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Late Emails Undercut BCBS Pricing Suit, Walgreens Says

Walgreen Co. is urging an Illinois federal judge to again sanction a Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer and its subsidiary for allegedly failing to produce key email evidence the pharmacy retailer says "upends" th... (more story)

Target Beats ERISA Suit Over Tobacco Health Surcharge

A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday tossed a proposed class action alleging that a tobacco fee on Target workers' health plan violated nondiscrimination provisions in federal benefits law, agreeing with the... (more story)

Cambia Health Hit With FCA Suit Over Medicare Fraud Claims

Cambia Health Solutions Inc. stole millions of dollars from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over more than a decade by submitting fraudulent diagnostic information to the government, accor... (more story)

Insurer Sanctioned For Destroying Opioid Coverage Evidence

An Illinois federal court Wednesday sanctioned an insurer in a drug wholesaler's suit seeking coverage for underlying opioid litigation, finding that the carrier intentionally destroyed key emails and underwri... (more story)

Ex-Players Seek $4M In Legal Fees In NFL Race-Norming Fight

Ex-NFL players who settled a suit over racially discriminatory assessments made by the league's disability and retirement plans are asking a Maryland federal judge for over $4 million in legal fees.

Trump Says 100% Tariff On Generic Drugs Coming In 2028

Generic drugs imported into the U.S. will be hit with a tariff of 100% in 2028 and 200% in later years in an attempt to drive manufacturing into the country, President Donald Trump said on social media.