Hospitals feeling a mounting financial squeeze are getting more aggressive in contract negotiations and reimbursement disputes with insurance companies.

The bankruptcy trust for DNA testing company 23andMe and the state of California locked horns Tuesday over the debtor's plan to trim the size of claims that the state has asserted over a data breach in 2023.

A New Jersey federal judge threw out Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.'s suit against a group of pharmacies alleging they engaged in a criminal, years-long racketeering scheme that resulted in it paying more ... (more story)

Healthcare services provider McKesson Corp., advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire clinical research and biopharmaceutical commercialization services business Precision Med... (more story)

Foley & Lardner LLP announced that a life sciences attorney with over 30 years of experience has jumped to the firm's San Diego office as a partner from Cooley LLP.

The Court of Federal Claims has ordered the reevaluation of a $57 million contract to process Medicare claims for equipment, finding the winning proposal had conflicting estimated labor hours that the Centers ... (more story)

A Colorado federal judge has given the initial green light to DaVita Inc.'s proposed $15 million settlement with millions of past and present patients who claim the healthcare company didn't adequately protect... (more story)

A group of patients has dropped a lawsuit accusing a Georgia-based medical billing practice of failing to properly secure the personal information of patients and employees ahead of a September data breach.

UnitedHealthcare Services Inc. permanently beat a proposed class action alleging that its website's third-party tracking pixels shared information about its visitors, after a California federal judge said Wedn... (more story)

The Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine's recent lawsuit against Character Technologies, arguing that an artificial intelligence chatbot engaged in the unlicensed practice of medicine, may provide other state... (more story)

A medical technology trade group and a University of Texas law professor are urging the full Federal Circuit to revisit a decision that wiped out Insulet Corp.'s trade secret win against EOFlow Co. Ltd. after ... (more story)

Medical device company Applied Medical Resources Corp. has urged a California federal judge to issue final judgment and impose a permanent injunction against Medtronic Inc. that would block contracts a jury fo... (more story)

A Washington federal judge Monday partly granted a group of states' bid for expedited discovery in their suit over the Trump administration's attempt to cut nearly $1 billion in funding for K-12 mental health ... (more story)

Paula Greisen has represented clients in the LGBTQ+ community in major litigation over the past decade, most recently helping a group of transgender adolescents win class certification in a lawsuit against Chi... (more story)

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed skepticism about "top-down mandates" and broad vaccine recommendations in a new document that sets the stage for overhauling how the government delivers ... (more story)

Geico urged a New Jersey federal court to reject medical clinics' bid to dismiss remaining claims in a lawsuit alleging they fraudulently billed no-fault patients, saying that a recent state supreme court ruli... (more story)

A trade group representing large employee benefit plan administrators wrote in support of insurance giant Progressive at the Sixth Circuit, asking the appellate court to back dismissal of a proposed class acti... (more story)

A D.C. federal judge will allow hospitals and health center groups to intervene on the side of the government as it fights AbbVie's challenge to the definition of "patient" in the 340B drug discount program, r... (more story)