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CVS Split A Signal Of Health Integration Limits

CVS' decision to split mirrors rising concerns about healthcare companies working as provider, insurer and pharmacy.

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AbbVie Scores Rare IRA Drug Pricing Win. Will Others Follow?

After a string of drugmaker losses in suits opposing the Medicare drug pricing law, AbbVie won a challenge to the inclusion of Botox in price talks. Industry experts are watching to see if more pharma players can secure exemptions.

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Oura Buys Healthcare AI Platform In $625M Deal

Health intelligence platform Oura, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire artificial intelligence-native primary care company Counsel Health, led by DLA Piper, in a $625 million deal.

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What The 11th Circ.'s Qui Tam Ruling Left Unanswered

Taylor Chenery

Although the Eleventh Circuit’s recent ruling in Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates upheld the False Claims Act’s qui tam pr...(read more)

FTC Letters Expand Hospitals' Pricing Transparency Risks

John Carroll, Robert Cooper and Ahsin Azim

A wave of warning letters recently sent by the Federal Trade Commission to healthcare service providers makes it clear that, in...(read more)

How Cos. Can Reassess Ad Tech After Wash. Pixel Use Ruling

Gerald Maatman, Jennifer Riley and Ryan Garippo

The Washington Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Seattle Children's Hospital, holding that the hospital website's use of Met...(read more)

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This Week's Healthcare Earnings: CVS, Novo And More

This was the week of health payors, with major names like CVS, Cigna, and Humana posting quarterly results. Law360 Healthcare Authority breaks down what to know from earnings this week.

Meet The Attorneys Guiding FuturHealth Through Ch. 11

A group of attorneys from Ice Miller LLP is guiding FuturHealth, a telehealth company focused on weight loss, through its Chapter 11 case as the company pursues a dual-track plan for an asset sale or reorganization.

FDIC Sued By Rural NY Hospital Over Failed Bank Loan

New York-based Community Memorial Hospital Inc. has hit the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation with a suit accusing it of wrongly refusing to insure or offset approximately $1.9 million in loan funds held at a failed Ge...(read more)

Meet The Attorneys Guiding Karyopharm's Ch. 11

A team of six attorneys from Sidley Austin LLP is steering the Chapter 11 case of cancer drug developer Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. as the company looks to merge with biotechnology firm Ayrmid and trim debt through a prep...(read more)

Glenmark's $30M Drug Price-Fixing Deal Gets Final OK

A Connecticut federal judge has granted final approval to a $29.6 million settlement between dozens of states and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals that resolves claims accusing the company of conspiring with competitors to drive u...(read more)

MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu A. Mainigi

Enu Mainigi of Williams & Connolly LLP represented SuperValu and Albertsons before an Illinois federal jury that cleared them of liability on claims they overcharged the government for prescription drugs, earning her a spo...(read more)

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Masimo, ITC Tell Justices To Skip Apple Watch Ban Appeal

Masimo Corp. and the U.S. International Trade Commission said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court should ignore Apple's arguments that the Federal Circuit degraded the agency's domestic industry requirement by sustaining ...(read more)

LA Cannabis Retailer Sued Over Email 'Spy Pixels'

A Los Angeles dispensary placed "malicious" code in marketing emails that spied on a consumer and recorded when she opened the messages and her location, forwarding the information to data-broker vendors, according to a Ca...(read more)

Stryker Shorted Wash. Workers On Breaks, Wages, Suit Says

A medical device company failed to provide Washington hourly workers with required meal and rest breaks, underpaid their wages and restricted their ability to discuss their pay, according to a proposed class action removed...(read more)

Judge Will Reduce 'Shocking' $88M Mesh Bellwether Verdict

A Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday she will reduce an $88 million verdict awarded to an Alabama couple in the first bellwether hernia mesh trial against Medtronic subsidiary Covidien LP, saying the award appeared t...(read more)

HHS Seeks To End Suit Over Aid Recipient Data Sharing

The Department of Health and Human Services is asking a New York federal judge to either rule in its favor or otherwise throw out a suit focused on whether HHS is allowed to share personal information with the Department o...(read more)

What To Expect From Calif.'s Incoming Health AI Laws

California's new statewide ground rules for artificial intelligence in clinical care, set to take effect on Jan. 1, reveal the Legislature's choice to regulate healthcare AI primarily though institutions, rather than direc...(read more)

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Anthropic Accused Of Infringing AI Attention Patents

A Texas technology company sued Anthropic on Thursday claiming it was infringing a set of patents covering AI attention for training when working on its marquee chatbot model Claude.

Waffle House Tobacco Fee Suit Narrowed To Avoid Arbitration

A former Waffle House server wants to shrink her suit claiming the restaurant chain unlawfully charged workers who used tobacco more for health coverage to level a sole claim for planwide relief, after Waffle House moved t...(read more)

JB Hunt To Pay $3.2M To End Tobacco Fee Suit

Trucking company J.B. Hunt will shell out roughly $3.2 million to settle a proposed class action alleging workers who used tobacco were wrongly charged $15 per week more for healthcare, according to the terms of a deal fil...(read more)

DaVita, Fresenius Sued By Wash. AG Over Noncompete Terms

The Washington State Attorney General's Office accused for-profit kidney dialysis providers DaVita and Fresenius of illegally barring specialists contracted as medical directors from taking on similar roles at other local ...(read more)

Pharma Co. Investors Ink $4M Deal In FDA Hurdle Suit

Verrica Pharmaceuticals and a group of investors have reached a $4 million deal to end claims that the company hid obstacles it faced in obtaining U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its lead product.

Idaho Judge Stays Abortion Relief, Citing 9th Circ. Ruling

An Idaho federal judge on Tuesday stayed his finding that the state would violate the 14th Amendment by criminalizing certain abortions performed by a doctor challenging the state's abortion laws, saying he is bound by a N...(read more)