An LGBTQ+ advocacy organization must produce documents as part of an investigation from the Texas attorney general's office into transgender treatments for minors, the Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday. www.law360.com/artic...
New: An LGBTQ+ advocacy org. must produce documents for an investigation from the Texas attorney general's office into transgender treatments for minors, the Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday, saying that the state's gender care ban is the law and must be followed. www.law360.com/articles/245...
New: Gov. Andy Beshear's administration quietly moved to remove weight loss drugs from a list of excluded prescriptions in the state's Medicaid program.
The legislature is moving to nullify that change, citing the high costs of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro.
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New: Under a new initiative, DOJ attys will serve as legal guardians for some homeless veterans, the Trump admin. said Wed., though some veteran advocates said the new program could involuntarily coerce vets experiencing mental health issues into institutional care. www.law360.com/health/artic...
New: Mayday Health can no longer post ads at gas stations in South Dakota that promote abortion care, according to the South Dakota attorney general's office, which said that the parties have reached an agreement to drop a pair of lawsuits over the ad campaign. www.law360.com/health/artic...
Silence in the federal statute that governs the 340B discount drug program on the issue of contract pharmacies is working against drugmakers in their dogged effort to stop states from protecting provider agreements with pharmacies from drugmaker interference.
New: Dr. Vinay Prasad, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine regulator, will leave the agency in the coming weeks, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said Friday. www.law360.com/articles/245...
New analysis: Silence in the federal law that governs the 340B discount drug program on the issue of contract pharmacies is working against drugmakers in their dogged effort to stop states from protecting provider agreements with pharmacies from drugmaker interference. www.law360.com/healthcare-a...
The public political battle between Minnesota and the federal government over alleged Medicaid fraud in the state continued Wednesday on Capitol Hill. www.law360.com/artic...
New: The political battle between Minnesota and the feds over alleged Medicaid fraud in the state continued Wed. on Capitol Hill, with Republicans and Democrats casting stones at each other after the Trump admin. pulled nearly $260 million in healthcare funding. www.law360.com/articles/244...
New: State laws that block drugmakers from imposing restrictions on federally funded hospitals and the contract pharmacies they use to dispense discounted drugs under the 340B drug discount program are violating federal law, the Trump administration said. www.law360.com/health/artic...
New: The Department of Education must fund K-12 mental health grants given to public schools to help students cope with school shootings, the Ninth Circuit ruled, denying the agency's emergency request to pause a lower court's permanent injunction pending an appeal. www.law360.com/health/artic...
New: A federal judge in Hawaii temporarily upheld the state's law that prevents drug makers from blocking safety-net hospitals from contracting with an unlimited number of outside pharmacies to dispense discounted drugs under the 340B Drug Discount Program. www.law360.com/articles/244...
BREAKING: A 6-3 Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, finding the International Emergency Economic Powers Act *doesn’t* authorize the president to issue them. #SCOTUS
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New: A pharma trade group has urged the 1st Circ. to overturn a district court's order siding with a Rhode Island law that bars drug manufacturers from blocking hospitals from contracting with outside pharmacies to dispense discounted drugs under the 340B Drug Program. www.law360.com/health/artic...
New: The 4th Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Department of Defense policy that bans HIV-positive Americans from enlisting, deferring to the military's judgment that it must have fit service members who do not require consistent treatment for chronic medical conditions. www.law360.com/health/artic...
New: A Chicago plumbers union told a federal court Tues. that the PBM Express Scripts violated federal law when it used a Switzerland-based company to hide kickbacks it generated by charging drug companies fees for key placement on prescription plan drug lists. www.law360.com/health/artic...
New: HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s declaration supporting the Trump administration's move to cut funding to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care is a nonbinding policy view, his agency told an Oregon federal court, and doesn't trigger exclusions from health programs. www.law360.com/health/artic...
A major transgender medical group and a pediatric healthcare organization are seeking to end what they call "unlawful" consumer protection investigations from the FTC. www.law360.com/artic...
New: A transgender medical group and a pediatric healthcare organization are seeking to end what they call "unlawful" consumer protection investigations from the Federal Trade Commission that want information pertaining to gender-affirming care for minors. www.law360.com/health/artic...
New: A 5th Circuit panel upheld on Monday a Louisiana law that allows the state to stop prescription drug manufacturers from blocking safety-net healthcare providers from contracting with outside pharmacies to dispense discounted medicines under the 340B program. www.law360.com/articles/243...
Novo Nordisk said it plans to take legal action against Hims & Hers Health Inc. after the telehealth company revealed a "knockoff" version of Novo's popular weight loss drug Wegovy.
New analysis: At least eight states are planning changes to their certificate of need programs, often called CON, in an effort to qualify for a bigger slice of the federal funding under the Trump administration's Rural Health Transformation Program.
New: GenBioPro asserted its right Wednesday to defend mifepristone, moving to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by Louisiana that alleges that federal regulators violated federal law by removing an in-person dispensing requirement for the drug. www.law360.com/articles/243...
New: A Second Circuit panel seemed poised Tuesday to find that an anesthesiology practice didn't suffer an antitrust injury in its claim that a United Healthcare unit used its market power in New York to cut reimbursement rates. www.law360.com/health/artic...
New: A proposed class action's allegations that Anthem Health Plans maintains inaccurate mental health directories known as ghost provider networks aren't true and are "legally deficient," the insurer argued while urging a Connecticut court to toss the suit.
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New: A proposed class of medical providers and collection agencies accusing Equifax, Experian and TransUnion of colluding to exclude medical debt under $500 from consumer credit reports is opposing a bid by the credit bureaus to appeal a ruling that denied dismissal.
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The Supreme Court has agreed this term to hear the fewest number of cases since the Civil War. While #SCOTUS's emergency/shadow docket often gets flak for overwhelming the court, some say this term's caseload is part of a bigger, more concerning trend. www.law360.com/articles/243...
New: The Trump administration is fighting an effort by a group of states to preserve at least six months of funding for K-12 mental health grants meant to help students process gun violence, arguing an earlier court ruling doesn't require the feds to fund the grants. www.law360.com/health/artic...
Republicans on a Senate health panel Wednesday called for the FDA to reinstate a requirement that pregnant women seeking an abortion via medication must have the drug administered in a doctor's office, not through telehealth or remotely. www.law360.com/artic...
