The Most Important Healthcare and Life Science Deals Of 2025
Attorneys taking stock of 2025 spoke to Law360 about the most important deals of the year, including Pfizer’s high-profile acquisition of Metsera and transactions in outpatient services and gene therapy.
Bazelon Center Dir. On Disabilities And Medicaid 'Barriers'
Law360 Healthcare Authority talks to Jennifer Mathis of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law about Medicaid, disability law and what states should do to stop people with impairments from being disenrolled improperly.
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Lax Enforcement Spurs Suits Over Insurers' 'Ghost' Networks
More patients are alleging that what are known as insurers' ghost networks — directories full of unreachable providers — deny them access to mental health care. Their counsel say scarce enforcement is just one of the problems.
The Most Important Healthcare and Life Science Deals Of 2025
Attorneys taking stock of 2025 spoke to Law360 about the most important deals of the year, including Pfizer’s high-profile acquisition of Metsera and transactions in outpatient services and gene therapy.
Bazelon Center Dir. On Disabilities And Medicaid 'Barriers'
Law360 Healthcare Authority talks to Jennifer Mathis of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law about Medicaid, disability law and what states should do to stop people with impairments from being disenrolled improperly.
Lax Enforcement Spurs Suits Over Insurers' 'Ghost' Networks
More patients are alleging that what are known as insurers' ghost networks — directories full of unreachable providers — deny them access to mental health care. Their counsel say scarce enforcement is just one of the problems.
Expert Analysis
False Claims Act enforcement trends and legislative developments from this year signal intensifying state and fede... (more story)
Two federal court decisions suggesting that the Internal Revenue Service's rules for 501(c)(4) organizations' poli... (more story)
On Dec. 12, the Eleventh Circuit will hear arguments in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, settin... (more story)
Deals & Corporate Governance More
Private equity-backed medical supplies giant Medline, guided by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Tuesday priced an upsized initial public offering, raising $6.26 billion in what will be the largest IPO of 20... (more story)
A pickup of biotech megadeals is giving life sciences insiders a sense of renewed optimism as the industry heads into the new year.
With 2025 coming to a close, Law360 Healthcare Authority asked attorneys focused on healthcare deals for their take on the trends that influenced dealmaking over the last 12 months.
Pharmaceutical company Cencora Inc. unveiled plans Monday to acquire a majority stake in cancer care company OneOncology for $5 billion, buying interest from private equity shop TPG in a deal built by three law firms.
Executives and directors of health insurance provider Molina Healthcare were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit Friday accusing them of misleading investors about medical cost trends and internal control... (more story)
A Maryland federal judge signed off on the U.S. Department of Justice settlement resolving its challenge to UnitedHealth's $3.3 billion acquisition of home health and hospice company Amedisys, under a deal req... (more story)
Digital Health & Technology More
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hit Epic Systems Corp. with an antitrust suit in state court on Wednesday alleging the company is illegally seeking to monopolize markets for electronic health records software.
An Illinois state appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a man's suit claiming two State Farm life insurers violated Illinois' genetic information privacy law, finding a section barring the use of genetic pro... (more story)
Over 1.6 million patients affected by HealthEC's cybersecurity attack in 2023 asked a New Jersey magistrate judge for her final stamp of approval on a $5.48 million class action settlement, arguing Monday the ... (more story)
Apple Inc. has told the Federal Circuit that the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision last month to review whether a redesigned Apple Watch infringes Masimo Corp. patents "underscores the need" for t... (more story)
A trio of Dechert LLP partners, including the co-chair of its global intellectual property practice, have joined Cooley LLP alongside a team of special counsel, associates and patent agents, the firm announced Tuesday.
A Georgia-based medical billing practice asked a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action accusing it of failing to properly secure its patients and employees' personal information that was exposed in ... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases filed suit in Maryland federal court on Tuesday alleging Trump administration appointees violated her constitutional rights by i... (more story)
The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a reevaluation of the discharge status of service members who were involuntarily removed from the military after th... (more story)
A vaccine skepticism advocacy group once tied to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is revamping its fight against New York's school vaccination mandate, arguing recent activity by th... (more story)
An appellate panel weighed the constitutionality of the False Claim Act's whistleblower mechanism. Law360 Healthcare Authority has what you need to know about the closely watched hearing.
Former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge was sentenced Tuesday in Pennsylvania federal court to eight years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to trafficking body parts from donated cadavers.
Allina Health System and other nonprofit hospital owners have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, telling a D.C. federal judge it unlawfully enacted a rule that will cause safety-net hospita... (more story)