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 […]
On April 23, 2025, Provider Plaintiffs moved the Court to grant final approval of the monumental settlement in the Provider Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust litigation. The settlement includes the largest monetary payment ($2.8 Billion) in any healthcare antitrust action in history in addition to injunctive relief valued at more than $17.3 Billion for healthcare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that it will increase the benchmarks paid to Medicare Advantage plans by an average of 5.06% for calendar year 2026. This is an increase of 2.83 percentage points since the 2026 Advance Notice. CMS attributed the 5.06% increase to an increase in the effective growth rate,
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The Department of Health and Human Services has filed a Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment supporting the previous administration’s position that pharmaceutical manufacturers do not have the unilateral right to implement rebate programs for 340B drugs. The MSJ brief argues that HHS was well within its statutory authority to prevent the manufacturers from unilaterally implementing the
If you or your business provided healthcare services, equipment, or supplies to Blue Plan patients anytime from July 24, 2008, to October 4, 2024, you may be eligible to submit a claim for your share of a $2.8 billion settlement reached with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system. The settlement, reached earlier this year
If you or your business provided healthcare services, equipment, or supplies to Blue Plan patients anytime from July 24, 2008, to October 4, 2024, you may be eligible to submit a claim for your share of a $2.8 billion settlement reached with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system. The settlement, reached earlier this year
A federal district court has partially denied UnitedHealthgroup’s Motion to Dismiss a class action lawsuit challenging its use of artificial intelligence to deny post-acute care for its Medicare Advantage members, allowing the case to proceed. The lawsuit, The Estate of Lokken v. UnitedHealthgroup, pending in the federal district court for the District of Minnesota, alleges
Today, experts Daniel Slottje and Brendan Rogers, and Matthew C. Katz provided declarations to the Court in support of the Injunctive Relief Valuation of the BCBS Provider Settlement. The respective reports can be found here and here, and the Executive Summary of the reports can be found here.
If you or your business provided healthcare services, equipment, or supplies to Blue Plan patients anytime from July 24, 2008, to October 4, 2024, you may be eligible to submit a claim for your share of a $2.8 billion settlement reached with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield system. The settlement, reached earlier this year
Recently, Modern Healthcare published an article regarding the Provider Settlement. The article can be found here.