Health Care / Medicine Archives - Above the Law https://abovethelaw.com/health-care-medicine/ A Legal Web Site – News, Insights, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts Sun, 20 Aug 2023 16:54:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 Congressman Launches Investigation Into Medicaid Prior Authorization Denials https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/congressman-investigation-medicaid-prior-authorization-denials/ Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:03:20 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=992334 U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-New Jersey) announced that he is looking into high prior authorization denial rates by Medicaid managed care health plans. It follows a report by the Office of Inspector General that found that Medicaid MCOs denied one out of every eight prior authorization requests in 2019.

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]]> 43K Patients In California Could Get Refunds, Bill Corrections As Part Of Discounted Care Settlement https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/california-medical-bills-healthcare/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:17:03 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=991779 Santa Clara Valley Healthcare in California has begun notifying 43,000 patients about their eligibility for billing corrections and refunds. The system’s patient outreach effort is a result of a recently settled lawsuit. In the complaint, former patients alleged the county did not inform them about its hospitals' charity care and discount payment policies, leading them to have to pay large bills.

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]]> House Reps Introduce Bill To Ease State Medicaid Staffing Shortages Amid Redeterminations https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/medicaid-redeterminations-bill-house-staffing-shortages/ Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:03:08 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=990831 The bill would allow state Medicaid agencies to hire outside contractors to help with Medicaid redeterminations, as many agencies don’t have the workforce to handle the return to the redetermination process.

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]]> HHS Launches Civil Rights Investigation Into Vanderbilt’s Sharing Of Transgender Patient Data https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/vanderbilt-transgender-healthcare-hhs/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:03:25 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=990441 Vanderbilt University Medical Center is under federal investigation after it turned transgender patients’ medical records over to Tennessee’s attorney general. HHS launched the investigation a couple weeks after two VUMC patients filed a class-action lawsuit against the hospital for releasing their records to the attorney general.

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]]> Senator Probes Google About ‘Premature Deployment Of Unproven Technology’ In Healthcare Settings https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/google-healthcare-generative-ai/ Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:03:43 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=990054 Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) penned a letter to Google leadership expressing concerns about Med-PaLM 2 — the company’s generative AI tool for healthcare providers that is currently being used by Mayo Clinic and other health systems.

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]]> Healthcare M&A Activity Reaches 3-Year Low, But It Might Pick Up In The Back Half Of ‘23 https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/healthcare-deals-investment/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:17:00 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=989532 M&A activity in the healthcare sector continued to decline in the second quarter of 2023, with the number of deals reaching its lowest point in three years. However, a new report predicted that M&A activity could increase in the second half of this year due to healthcare companies’ continually shrinking valuations and their divestitures of non-core assets.

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]]> Nektar Sues Eli Lilly, Claiming The Big Pharma Breached Contract To Favor Another Drug https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/nektar-sues-eli-lilly-claiming-the-big-pharma-breached-contract-to-favor-another-drug/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:03:09 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=989082 The biotech claims its former partner tried to disadvantage the asset in order to advance development of another drug it acquired in a billion-dollar deal.

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]]> How Did The 3 Biggest For-Profit Hospital Chains Perform In Q2? https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/healthcare-hca_tenet-chs-finance/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:03:00 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=988680 HCA and Tenet reported net incomes for the second quarter, while CHS posted a net loss. All three health systems found themselves in a better financial position in Q2 2023 than they were in Q2 of last year, driven in large part by declining contract labor expenses.

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]]> Hospitals Still Struggling To Get Back Online 4 Days After Cyberattack On Prospect Medical Holdings https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/ransomware-cyberattack-healthcare/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:03:06 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=988434 Hospitals and outpatient treatment centers in at least three states are struggling to get their systems back online following a ransomware attack waged last week against parent company Prospect Medical Holdings. Some of these facilities have partially or completely halted patient care.

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]]> GSK Patent Suit Aims To Halt Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine For Adults, But Not Infants https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/gsk-pfizer-rsv-vaccine-patent-lawsuit-arexvy-abrysvo/ Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:04:48 +0000 https://abovethelaw.com/?p=988005 GSK claims that Pfizer’s FDA-approved vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus infringes on four patents protecting its own approved vaccine, Arexvy. The patent suit comes with the RSV season approaching.

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