This Week's Healthcare Earnings: Tariffs Galore
Tariffs were, unsurprisingly, a major theme on investor calls this past week, as around a dozen healthcare companies released their quarterly financials and kicked off the thick of the earnings season for the industry.
Eli Lilly Opens New Front Against Weight-Drug Compounders
Pharma giant Eli Lilly is taking a new tack in its efforts to protect its lucrative weight-loss drugs by raising allegations that telehealth competitors are engaged in illegal corporate practice of medicine.
HHS Legal Staff Cuts Will Impair Abuse, Neglect Enforcement
A massive overhaul underway at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will wipe out the roles filled by more than 100 attorneys and other staff at offices in six states. Among the enforcement areas being hit are federal efforts led by regional HHS legal teams combating elder abuse and neglect at nursing homes.
This Week's Healthcare Earnings: Tariffs Galore
Tariffs were, unsurprisingly, a major theme on investor calls this past week, as around a dozen healthcare companies released their quarterly financials and kicked off the thick of the earnings season for the industry.
Eli Lilly Opens New Front Against Weight-Drug Compounders
Pharma giant Eli Lilly is taking a new tack in its efforts to protect its lucrative weight-loss drugs by raising allegations that telehealth competitors are engaged in illegal corporate practice of medicine.
HHS Legal Staff Cuts Will Impair Abuse, Neglect Enforcement
A massive overhaul underway at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will wipe out the roles filled by more than 100 attorneys and other staff at offices in six states. Among the enforcement areas being hit are federal efforts led by regional HHS legal teams combating elder abuse and neglect at nursing homes.
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Deals & Corporate Governance More
Brach Eichler LLC welcomed back a former partner who had moved to Saul Ewing LLP last year to serve as vice chair of Brach Eichler's healthcare law practice, the firm announced Friday.
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Amanda Copsey, a longtime U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General attorney, has joined Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC as a shareholder in its Baltimore office,... (more story)
Digital Health & Technology More
Boston Scientific evaded safety regulations to market a defective spinal cord stimulator and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rubber-stamped those alterations in an instance of "agency capture," according... (more story)
DaVita Inc. is facing at least two proposed class actions over a data breach the kidney care provider announced in April, with current and former patients alleging Wednesday in Colorado federal court that data... (more story)
The Justice Department is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition over the eligibility of telemedicine patents it's accused of infringing, but it said that if the petition is granted, it plans to ar... (more story)
British women's healthtech company Chiaro Technology Ltd. is relying on three attorneys from DLA Piper LLP as it seeks recognition of its insolvency in the United Kingdom by a Delaware bankruptcy court.
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An Illinois federal judge handling multidistrict litigation accusing Multiplan of conspiring with insurers to fix out-of-network reimbursement rates seemed unsure Friday that a viable antitrust theory is at pl... (more story)
Planned Parenthood on Thursday pressed a D.C. federal court to block the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' "attacks" on a long-running, successful public health initiative aimed at preventing teen ... (more story)
The federal government brought a bombshell False Claims Act suit Thursday against Aetna, Elevance and Humana, claiming the insurers paid hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks to brokers in excha... (more story)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a report it says raises "serious concerns" about medical interventions used to aid young people in gender transition.
The Eleventh Circuit held Thursday that a couple's lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over injuries allegedly caused by a pelvic mesh device made by the company's med-tech unit was filed too late despite eviden... (more story)