Expert Analysis

2024 Was A Significant Year For HIPAA Compliance

The Office of Civil Rights' high level of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act activity in 2024 and... (more story)

How 2025 NDAA May Affect DOD Procurement Protests

A bid protest pilot program included in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act shifts litigation costs onto u... (more story)

Liability Risk For AI In Medical Devices Demands Greater Care

As regulators push for legal reform surrounding artificial intelligence and cases implicating product liability fo... (more story)

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PE Firm Resolves FTC's Antitrust Anesthesia Roll-Up Case

Private equity firm Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe agreed to limit its involvement, entanglement and ownership rights with its portfolio company U.S. Anesthesia Partners Inc. to resolve allegations they engaged... (more story)

Crown Labs Tops Rival Bid In Quest To Buy Biotech Revance

Skincare product company Crown Laboratories Inc. has offered to raise its all-cash bid to buy healthcare biotech company Revance Therapeutics Inc. from $3.10 per share to $3.65 per share as it seeks to beat ou... (more story)

EpiPen Direct Buyers, Mylan Ink $75M Antitrust Deal

Mylan Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $73.5 million to resolve claims it worked with Pfizer to inflate the price of the latter's popular auto-injecting emergency allergy medication EpiPen, a proposed class o... (more story)

Del. Justices Mull 'Reasonable' Effort Duty In Drug Biz Deal

An attorney for former stockholders of Ception Therapeutics Inc. told Delaware's top court on Wednesday that a now-retired vice chancellor "asked the wrong question" in dismissing a suit alleging breaches of a... (more story)

Healthcare Deals To Be More 'Rational' In 2025, Panel Says

Healthcare deals will become more "rational" this year as buyers and sellers find more middle ground on valuations, experts said, potentially shaping a more optimistic landscape for transactions in the space.

Fed. Circ. Judge Asks What's The Rush In Eylea Biosimilar Case

Counsel for Amgen and a Federal Circuit judge got into a back-and-forth Tuesday concerning the pace of an appeal over a denied injunction on Regeneron's biosimilar of Eylea, with the judge wondering why the at... (more story)

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NC Biz Court Bulletin: Judge Bids Adieu, TikTok Wants Out

The North Carolina Business Court's former chief judge hung up his robes for the last time as the court entered the new year with a ruling that shapes the fate of beset real estate company MV Realty's consumer... (more story)

Henry Ford Patient Drops Data-Scraping Claims

Henry Ford Health has resolved a proposed class action accusing the health system of sharing patients' data with Meta Platforms Inc. and Google Inc. via tracking software embedded in the hospital system's webs... (more story)

Robo Surgery Co. Caused $140M In Lost Profits, Jury Told

Surgical Instrument Service suffered lost profits of up to $140 million because Intuitive Surgical Inc. blocked it from providing a service that extends the life of an Intuitive da Vinci surgery robot componen... (more story)

Quest Diagnostics Gets Meta Data-Share Suit Tossed For Now

Quest Diagnostics got allegations that it unlawfully shared patient data with Meta Platforms through ad tracking software dismissed Tuesday, after persuading a New Jersey federal judge to reconsider his earlie... (more story)

Atrium Health Accused Of Giving Patient Data To Google

Atrium Health installed trackers in its mobile app and website to collect patients' data without their consent and then shared that personal information with Google and Facebook for targeted advertising, accor... (more story)

HHS' Strategic Plan For Healthcare AI: 3 Things To Know

A federal strategic plan for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare calls for setting clear regulations and collaborating with private groups as part of a broad framework to support innovation and protect patients.

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Unified Care Services To Pay $18M To Settle PPP Case

Skilled nursing chain Unified Care Services LLC and its owner have agreed to shell out $18 million to put to rest a whistleblower suit alleging the California-based company and its affiliates knowingly include... (more story)

Walgreens Knowingly Filled Invalid Prescriptions, Feds Say

The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Walgreens of knowingly filling millions of prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances that did not have a legitimate medical purpose or were not valid,... (more story)

Bayer, J&J Minimized Drug Reaction Data, 3rd Circ. Told

A doctor urged the Third Circuit on Friday to revive his whistleblower suit against Bayer Corp. and Johnson & Johnson, arguing that the drugmakers' regulatory approval applications played down the side effects... (more story)

MultiPlan Wants Antitrust Claims Over Pricing Tools Tossed

MultiPlan and several major insurance companies urged an Illinois federal court to toss claims that they schemed to fix reimbursement rates, saying the pricing tools at issue do not hurt the healthcare provide... (more story)

Trade Group Sues To Stop Federal Mental Health Parity Regs

A benefits-focused employer trade group sued the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies in D.C. federal court Friday, seeking to block recently finalized mental health parity regulations the group... (more story)

4 Battles Over Gender-Affirming Care To Watch In 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the federal government's challenge to Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and the Eleventh Circuit is considering a bid to upend federal rules extending the... (more story)