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March 03, 2026
Former Wells Fargo workers on the employer healthcare plan failed to show that the company violated federal benefits law by allowing them to overpay for prescription drugs, a Minnesota federal judge found Tuesday, tossing the proposed class action.
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March 03, 2026
Silence in the federal law governing the 340B discount drug program on the issue of contract pharmacies is working against drugmakers in their effort to stop states from protecting provider agreements with pharmacies.
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March 03, 2026
Ohio defends a gender transition ban and Janssen seeks to shed a $1.64 billion False Claims Act judgment. Law360 looks at the healthcare oral arguments to watch for in March.
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March 03, 2026
Eleven states pursuing a False Claims Act case against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals over what they say were inflated reimbursements for an eye drug can't block counterclaims by the drugmaker on sovereign immunity grounds, a Massachusetts federal judge has ruled.
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March 03, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from getting patient-specific records of gender-affirming care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital, excoriating the government's request and its reasoning for demanding the data.
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March 03, 2026
Boston lost its bid to revive opioid crisis-related claims against two pharmacy benefit managers, as a First Circuit panel affirmed that the suit came years too late.
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March 03, 2026
The U.S. government has settled its False Claims Act lawsuit with a medical coding and billing business it accused of aiding a Miami-based laboratory in fraudulently billing Medicare for more than $15 million in genetic tests.
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March 02, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a lower court order that barred California public schools from allowing transgender and gender-nonconforming students to use different names and pronouns at school without their parents' knowledge or consent while the order is appealed.
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March 02, 2026
Mental-health professionals in Texas risk losing their licenses and public funding if they "facilitate" the gender-affirming care banned under state law, said an opinion issued Friday by Attorney General Ken Paxton, which calls them the "gatekeepers."
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March 02, 2026
A New York federal judge on Monday granted Anthem escape from a proposed class action from patients who alleged inaccuracies in the insurer's mental health provider directory violated New York state laws, holding their claims were preempted by federal employee health benefits law.
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March 02, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has revived a bankrupt Johnson & Johnson talc subsidiary's trade libel claim over a 2020 scientific article linking asbestos in talc to mesothelioma, finding that new evidence and allegations concerning the authenticity of the author's data are enough to survive a motion to dismiss.
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March 02, 2026
Pharmaceutical manufacturers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Oregon's drug‑pricing transparency law, arguing it forces companies to publicly justify their pricing decisions and give up valuable trade secrets in violation of the First Amendment and the Constitution's takings clause.
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February 27, 2026
A Colorado mental health and substance use treatment facilities operator and its patients asked a Colorado federal judge to stop Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's claims practices, alleging its process violates federal benefits and mental health parity laws and disrupts access to lifesaving care.
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February 27, 2026
A packed March argument calendar will put several high‑stakes disputes before the Third Circuit, including a billion‑dollar False Claims Act judgment and challenges at the intersection of academic freedom, DEI programming, cannabis‑sector finance and campus Title IX procedures.
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February 27, 2026
Medical providers and a collection agency in a proposed class action accusing Equifax, Experian and TransUnion of conspiring to exclude less than $500 in medical debt from consumer credit reports lack good cause to again amend their complaint, the credit reporting agencies told a federal court.
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February 27, 2026
A Massachusetts judge said an anti-vaccine advocacy group with ties to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cannot join a lawsuit over the federal government's new childhood vaccine schedule, a day after the government said it opposed the group intervening in the case.
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February 27, 2026
A pair of Minnesota state senators have introduced a bill to create and regulate a medical psilocybin use program, which would allow residents over 21 with qualifying medical conditions to cultivate and use the drug to treat their conditions.
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February 27, 2026
Having already withstood five global pandemics, 21 presidencies and more than a century of developments in both the law and public health policy, the U.S. Supreme Court's most durable precedent blessing mandatory vaccination is well positioned to survive a new wave of challenges, experts say.
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February 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is unlawfully attempting to recoup more than $31 million in Medicare overpayments made during the COVID-19 pandemic, a New York City skilled nursing center told a federal court, saying it shouldn't have to repay the money.
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February 27, 2026
Meta can't escape a transgender employee's lawsuit claiming the company's health plan unlawfully denied her coverage of gender-affirming surgeries, an Oregon federal judge ruled, rejecting the company's assertion that she hadn't adequately alleged the plan covered her desired procedures.
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February 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor said Friday that the public will be given more time to comment on a new proposed rule that would require pharmacy benefit managers to disclose how much money they've received while serving as intermediaries between drugmakers, pharmacies and insurers.
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February 26, 2026
Counsel for GlaxoSmithKline urged a Third Circuit panel on Thursday to undo an order certifying a class of health plans in the multidistrict litigation over the company's alleged deceptive marketing of the diabetes drug Avandia, arguing the plaintiffs didn't have the experts necessary to support their case.
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February 26, 2026
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan’s lawsuit seeking $95 million in coverage for a recently settled whistleblower action raises an important challenge to policy language that limits coverage for claims related to returning funds received from government agencies, as policyholder attorneys call for a broad interpretation of the policy language.
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February 26, 2026
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, siding with manufacturers in their bid to strike down these laws.
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February 25, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Aid Access, its founder and a California doctor in state court Tuesday alleging they operate an "abortion-by-mail enterprise" that ship abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents, which is endangering the lives of unborn children and their mothers.