Wade’s Health Law Highlights for August 25, 2026
Read the issue: Wade’s Health Law Highlights for August 25, 2026The Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated the federal regulations governing how insurers calculate the qualifying payment amount under the No Surprises Act. In Texas Medical Association v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, No. 23-40605, decided August 11, the…
Recent Health Law Highlights Issues
Texas Company Connected to Alleged Scheme That Billed Medicare $3 Billion for Urinary Catheters
Summary of article from CBS Texas, by Brian New: A Texas-based company, Konaniah Medical Supplies, is implicated in a suspected Medicare fraud…
How This Southlake Physician Ended Up Serving Federal Time
Summary of article from D Magazine, by Will Maddox: Dr. Rodney Sosa, a Southlake physician, was convicted of defrauding the United States…
What’s it to You? Justice Scalia’s 41-Year-Old Gatekeeping Question on “Standing” Influences Court to Uphold FDA’s Regulation of Mifepristone
Summary of article from Akerman LLP, by Noam Fischman, Danielle Gordet: On June 13, 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that doctors…
Texas Supreme Court Declines Opportunity to Hear Personhood Case
Summary of article from Epstein Becker Green, by Erin Sutton: The Texas Supreme Court has declined to review the case Antoun v.…
Fort Worth Physicians Assistant Sentenced in Medicare Fraud Case
Summary of article from WFAA, by Ben Sawyers: North Texas physician’s assistant, Ray Anthony Shoulders, was sentenced to seven years in federal…
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