Suzanne York

The Alabama Hospital Investment Program provides a dollar-for-dollar tax credit against state income and other taxes for individuals and businesses that donate to eligible rural hospitals in Alabama. The Program was established by statute and is available for the tax years from 2026 – 2028. It is intended to help eligible rural hospitals receive additional […]

On September 23, 2025, Judge R. David Proctor entered an order establishing the Monitoring Committee for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Provider Settlement.  The Committee will be comprised of:  Whatley Kallas partner, W. Tucker Brown, and Healthcare Association of New York State (formerly “Hospital Association of New York State”) Special Counsel for Managed Care and

In a strongly worded letter to the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”), the American Hospital Association has asked HRSA to abandon the proposed 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (“the Pilot Program”), or to delay its implementation until issues with the costs of compliance with it could be fixed. The 340B Drug Pricing Program allows

Whatley Kallas is pleased to announce that the $2.8 Billion Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Settlement, the largest payment in a healthcare antitrust case, has become effective. The Settlement also contains injunctive relief that plaintiffs’ experts value in excess of $17.3 billion. There were no appeals from the Court’s final approval of the Settlement. Whatley

The court overseeing the Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation has granted final approval of the Provider Plaintiffs’ settlement, which provides $2.8 billion in monetary relief and at least $17.3 billion in injunctive relief to healthcare providers.  A copy of the Final Approval Order can be found here, and on Whatley Kallas’s settlement website at

Following an eleven-day trial, a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama held that the Alabama Legislature violated the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it intentionally drew Congressional districts that would prevent Black voters from electing the candidates of their