Jarkesy Decision May Hit Key Healthcare Enforcement Tool
Kroger Deal's Local Veto May Give Ore. Health Agency Pause
4 Takeaways From FDA's Clinical Trial Diversity Guidance
Jarkesy Decision May Hit Key Healthcare Enforcement Tool
Healthcare companies battling civil fines imposed by federal health regulators are already embracing a U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening agencies' power to impose monetary penalties without a jury trial. Many healthcare attorneys predict that a first wave of industry pushback will build to something seismic for civil penalties and federal health regulation.
Kroger Deal's Local Veto May Give Ore. Health Agency Pause
A proposed merger between grocery store giants Kroger and Albertsons has collided with an Oregon community board concerned about the deal exacerbating "pharmacy deserts" in rural areas of the state.
4 Takeaways From FDA's Clinical Trial Diversity Guidance
Long-awaited U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidance sheds new light on clinical trial action plans meant to improve health outcomes for more populations. Here are four takeaways from the FDA's latest clinical trial diversity guidelines.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has received heated feedback regarding its proposal to make follow-on patents easier to invalidate, with drug pricing advocates applauding it, top technology and pharma com... (more story)
SIM Acquisition Corp. I, a special-purpose acquisition company formed to pursue a healthcare merger, began trading Wednesday after pricing a $200 million initial public offering, represented by Ellenoff Grossm... (more story)
A county in western North Carolina can't intervene in the attorney general's lawsuit accusing a for-profit health network of reneging on promises it made when it bought an Asheville hospital, the state Busines... (more story)
The Florida federal judge presiding over the multidistrict litigation alleging disposable contact lens sellers conspired to fix prices refused Tuesday to let Alcon escape antitrust claims by an online contact ... (more story)
Despite the short week, the healthcare industry saw a handful of notable deals, including ones from GSK and Eli Lilly valued in the billions of dollars.
Stamford, Connecticut-based Avesi Partners, a private equity firm specializing in healthcare and business services, said Tuesday it had closed Avesi Partners Fund II LP at $1.35 billion, with Kirkland & Ellis ... (more story)
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A California federal judge has refused to toss a proposed class action accusing Santa Clara Valley Medical Center of unlawfully sharing sensitive data with Meta and Google through online tracking tools embedde... (more story)
Indian healthcare network Glocal said its majority owner, bankrupt telemedicine tech company UpHealth, lied about business delays and exaggerated its finances as leverage in a 2020 acquisition, alleging in a D... (more story)
The loss of Chevron deference may indirectly aid parties in challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' interpretations of regulations and could immediately influence several pending cases ch... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of the Chevron doctrine is likely to unleash an array of challenges against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, focusing on areas of potential overreach such as the FDA'... (more story)
Henry Ford Health in Michigan was hit with a proposed class action Friday alleging that it shares patients' private health information with third parties such as Meta and Google by allowing the companies to ha... (more story)
Bankrupt medical tech company UpHealth has urged an Illinois court to enforce a $110 million arbitral award against Indian digital healthcare services platform Glocal Healthcare in a bitter feud over an ill-fa... (more story)
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A Los Angeles drug testing lab will pay at least $1 million to settle claims it doubled-billed Medicare for toxicology tests for people undergoing treatment for opioid use disorder, Boston federal prosecutors ... (more story)
Employee benefit funds accusing Teva of orchestrating a decadelong scheme to delay generic competition for its QVAR asthma inhalers told a Massachusetts federal court the drugmaker is trying to end the case by... (more story)
A subsidiary of bankrupt DMK Pharmaceuticals Corp. faces a $16.9 million criminal fine after pleading guilty to conspiring in a scheme to ship drugs using false prescriptions, federal prosecutors announced Tue... (more story)
The end of Chevron deference is already disrupting regulation meant to protect LGBTQ+ access to healthcare, with three federal judges blocking enforcement of a Biden administration rule prohibiting discriminat... (more story)
Courts across the U.S. this year will oversee key cases to the healthcare industry, from multidistrict litigation over the Change Healthcare hack to a challenge of a state gender-affirming care ban at the Supr... (more story)
A ballot measure backed by some of the biggest healthcare players in California is designed to protect billions of dollars in revenue for the state's Medicaid program. Its impact may hinge on persuading more d... (more story)