April 08, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday struck down provisions of a California law that aims to restrict dialysis providers' ability to profit from patients receiving health insurance premium assistance from nonprofit charities, ruling in a published opinion that the provisions violated nonprofit American Kidney Fund's and dialysis providers' First Amendment rights.
October 24, 2025
Attorneys for healthcare providers, dialysis patients and a charity urged the Ninth Circuit in a Friday hearing to reverse a district court ruling upholding part of a California law capping profits for dialysis providers that donate to a charitable fund that then supports insurance payments for the providers' patients.