Health Care Law News and Insights

The end of 2021 was marked by several significant developments in the wave of litigation that has resulted from the opioid crisis of the last several years. These developments, however, are sufficiently inconsistent that it is difficult to predict where opioid-related lawsuits will land in 2022. On the one hand,...

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The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division (DOJ), just released its annual report on False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments. In fiscal year 2021, DOJ obtained $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments from "civil cases involving fraud and false claims" against the federal government. This result - it's not really a...

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While most stakeholders agree on the need for more transparency in our health care system, there is substantial debate about how to make meaningful progress toward this goal in specific cases. One example of such a case is the federal price transparency rules for hospitals that took effect in January...

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