The Biden administration’s push to improve nursing home care through better staffing—and the industry’s insistence that it needs more workers and funding to make it happen—could set the stage for intervention by Congress or the courts.
The US Supreme Court will consider just how far states can go in prohibiting abortion Wednesday as it weighs whether emergency room doctors nationwide can perform the procedure when a pregnant woman’s health is at serious risk.
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A Connecticut health benefits fund accused major insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers of engaging in a widespread deceptive pricing scheme that caused the fund to overpay for diabetes medications.
A federal court cleared the way for a class action challenging the adequacy of notices used by Florida to terminate benefits for hundreds of thousands of the state’s Medicaid recipients.
Kevin M. Dickau has been sentenced to 15 months in prison in connection with his role in a conspiracy to broker patients as part of a multistate patient scheme, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
New York state can move ahead with implementing new Medicaid reimbursement rates for nursing homes, the state’s highest court ruled.
US Supreme Court justices clashed over the limits on state power to ban abortion when a woman’s health is in jeopardy, suggesting a deep divide over a Biden administration bid to protect access in medical emergencies.
Stephanie Marcantonio has joined Sheppard Mullin as a healthcare partner in the New York office, the firm said Wednesday.
Armen Muradyan has been indicted on one count of tax evasion related to illegally collecting Medicare reimbursement payments made to his blood-testing company, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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The White House plans to nominate April Perry to a US district court seat in Chicago after her selection as the first female federal chief prosecutor in the city stalled in the Senate.
ViiV Healthcare and Exavir Therapeutics ended a lawsuit over allegations that Exavir’s patent-licensing agreement with the University of Nebraska on long-acting HIV therapy compounds interfered with the
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Michael Delaney has joined Seyfarth Shaw as a partner in the corporate department in Atlanta, the firm said Wednesday.
Andrew J. Merken has joined Polsinelli as a shareholder in the Boston office, the firm said Wednesday.
For TikTok, the clock has started running in its existential fight to avoid a US ban. Legislation requiring the social media app’s Chinese owners to divest sailed through Congress, capped by Senate passage late Tuesday as part of a larger foreign-aid package. President Joe Biden plans to sign it Wednesday — beginning a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition of the popular video-sharing platform.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court pulled the license of a lawyer who threatened to sue his client’s relatives if the woman wouldn’t give up her attorney-client privilege so the attorney could use the material in a tell-all book about a murder trial.
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