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Recent Action in Healthcare Markets
SB 1328 – Idaho
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
HEALTH — Amends existing law to clarify interactions that qualify as telehealth services sufficient to establish a prescriber-patient relationship. This legislation amends Chapter 57, the Idaho Telehealth Access Act, to expand the use of asynchronous …
HB 760 – Idaho
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
TELEHEALTH ACCESS ACT — Adds to existing law to provide for mental and behavioral health care.
HB 5729 – Illinois
Introduced: 2022 Status: In Process
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Adds provisions concerning market analysis and market conduct actions. Makes changes to provisions concerning market conduct and non-financial examinations, examination reports, insurance compliance self-evaluative privilege, confidentiality, fees and charges, examination, …
HB 1175 – Indiana
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
Physician noncompete agreements. Specifies that the reasonable price of a noncompete agreement buyout may not exceed $75,000 under the following circumstances: (1) the physician’s employer is a hospital system located in Allen County; (2) the …
HB 1295 – Indiana
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
Physician noncompete agreements. Specifies a process by which a physician or employer may require binding arbitration to determine a reasonable price to purchase a release from a noncompete agreement.
SB 400 – Indiana
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
Physician noncompete agreements. Specifies a process by which a physician or employer may require binding arbitration to determine a reasonable price to purchase a release from a noncompete agreement.
HB 400 – Utah
Introduced: 2022 Status: Enacted
Associate Physician License Amendments. This bill repeals a restriction that an associate physician may only practice primary care services; and amends provisions relating to the collaborative practice arrangement for an associate physician.
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Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
HEALTH — Amends existing law to clarify interactions that qualify as telehealth services sufficient to establish a prescriber-patient relationship. This legislation amends Chapter 57, the Idaho Telehealth Access Act, to expand the use of asynchronous …
HB 760 – Idaho
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
TELEHEALTH ACCESS ACT — Adds to existing law to provide for mental and behavioral health care.
HB 5729 – Illinois
Introduced: 2022 Status: In Process
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Adds provisions concerning market analysis and market conduct actions. Makes changes to provisions concerning market conduct and non-financial examinations, examination reports, insurance compliance self-evaluative privilege, confidentiality, fees and charges, examination, …
HB 1175 – Indiana
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
Physician noncompete agreements. Specifies that the reasonable price of a noncompete agreement buyout may not exceed $75,000 under the following circumstances: (1) the physician’s employer is a hospital system located in Allen County; (2) the …
HB 1295 – Indiana
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
Physician noncompete agreements. Specifies a process by which a physician or employer may require binding arbitration to determine a reasonable price to purchase a release from a noncompete agreement.
SB 400 – Indiana
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
Physician noncompete agreements. Specifies a process by which a physician or employer may require binding arbitration to determine a reasonable price to purchase a release from a noncompete agreement.
HB 400 – Utah
Introduced: 2022 Status: Enacted
Associate Physician License Amendments. This bill repeals a restriction that an associate physician may only practice primary care services; and amends provisions relating to the collaborative practice arrangement for an associate physician.
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Uriel Pharmacy v. Advocate Aurora Health – Wisconsin
District Court: Eastern District of Wisconsin Status: Pending
Brought by Uriel Pharmacy, a self-insured employer, the federal lawsuit alleges Advocate forced insurers to enter all-or-nothing and anti-tiering and anti-steering contract terms. In addition, …
City of Brevard, North Carolina v. HCA Healthcare and Mission Health System – North Carolina
District Court: Western District of North Carolinaa Status: Pending
Filed in federal district court by the city of Brevard, North Carolina, the lawsuit seeks class action status and alleges HCA used its monopoly power …
FTC v. RWJBarnabas Health & Saint Peter’s Healthcare System – New Jersey
District Court: District of New Jersey Status: Decided
RWJBH is the largest academic health system in New Jersey with 12 hospitals and collaborates with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Schools. Saint Peter’s Healthcare …
FTC v. HCA Healthcare & Steward Health Care – Utah
District Court: District of Utah Status: Pending
HCA Healthcare, the second largest health system with six hospitals in the Wasatch Front region of Utah, proposed to acquire five hospitals from Steward Health …
Saint Francis Hospital v. Hartford HealthCare – Connecticut
District Court: District of Connecticut Status: Pending
In February 2021, Saint Francis Hospital sued Hartford HealthCare, one of two major health systems in Connecticut, alleging that Hartford’s physician practice acquisitions and resulting …
Federal Trade Commission and State of Rhode Island v. Lifespan and Care New England Health – Rhode Island
District Court: District of Rhode Island Status: Decided
Rhode Island’s two largest nonprofit hospital systems, Lifespan and Care New England, abandoned their merger plans in the face of a joint antitrust challenge from …
United States and State of Minnesota and State of New York v. UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare – Minnesota, New York
District Court: District of Columbia Status: Pending
The DOJ, along with attorneys general of New York and Minnesota, filed a lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia to block UnitedHealth …
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District Court: Eastern District of Wisconsin Status: Pending
Brought by Uriel Pharmacy, a self-insured employer, the federal lawsuit alleges Advocate forced insurers to enter all-or-nothing and anti-tiering and anti-steering contract terms. In addition, …
City of Brevard, North Carolina v. HCA Healthcare and Mission Health System – North Carolina
District Court: Western District of North Carolinaa Status: Pending
Filed in federal district court by the city of Brevard, North Carolina, the lawsuit seeks class action status and alleges HCA used its monopoly power …
FTC v. RWJBarnabas Health & Saint Peter’s Healthcare System – New Jersey
District Court: District of New Jersey Status: Decided
RWJBH is the largest academic health system in New Jersey with 12 hospitals and collaborates with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Schools. Saint Peter’s Healthcare …
FTC v. HCA Healthcare & Steward Health Care – Utah
District Court: District of Utah Status: Pending
HCA Healthcare, the second largest health system with six hospitals in the Wasatch Front region of Utah, proposed to acquire five hospitals from Steward Health …
Saint Francis Hospital v. Hartford HealthCare – Connecticut
District Court: District of Connecticut Status: Pending
In February 2021, Saint Francis Hospital sued Hartford HealthCare, one of two major health systems in Connecticut, alleging that Hartford’s physician practice acquisitions and resulting …
Federal Trade Commission and State of Rhode Island v. Lifespan and Care New England Health – Rhode Island
District Court: District of Rhode Island Status: Decided
Rhode Island’s two largest nonprofit hospital systems, Lifespan and Care New England, abandoned their merger plans in the face of a joint antitrust challenge from …
United States and State of Minnesota and State of New York v. UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare – Minnesota, New York
District Court: District of Columbia Status: Pending
The DOJ, along with attorneys general of New York and Minnesota, filed a lawsuit in federal court in the District of Columbia to block UnitedHealth …
Next | See all Litigation Records
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