Tag: Lawsuit
AdaptHealth agrees to resolve lawsuit for $35M
December 29, 2025HME News Staff
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. - AdaptHealth has agreed to pay $35 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the company made false and misleading statements about its billing practices, compliance systems, acquisition integration and financial performance from Aug. 4, 2020, to Nov. 7, 2023. The settlement, which covers investors who purchased or acquired AdaptHealth common stock during that period, will...
Independent pharmacy groups defend Iowa PBM law in federal court
October 14, 2025HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A coalition of organizations representing independent pharmacies has filed an amicus brief in federal court supporting Iowa’s regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – a law currently being challenged by business and insurance groups.
The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), Iowa Pharmacy Association (IPA), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and Independent Pharmacy Cooperative (IPC) submitted the brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals...
NCPA joins price-fixing lawsuit
January 27, 2025HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association has joined a class action lawsuit against GoodRx, as well as CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, MedImpact Healthcare Systems and Navitus Health Solutions, that accuses them of colluding in a scheme to fix reimbursement rates to independent pharmacies. The lawsuit, brought by Community Care Rx, an independent pharmacy in Michigan, alleges that GoodRx and several PBMs are violating federal antitrust law by sharing competitively sensitive...
DOJ sues UnitedHealth to block Amedisys deal
November 20, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice, together with the attorneys general of Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey and New York, has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block UnitedHealth Group’s proposed $3.3 billion acquisition of Amedisys because it would eliminate competition between the two companies.
Since UnitedHealth’s acquisition of LHC Group, a competitor of Amedisys, in 2023, UnitedHealth and Amedisys have been two of the largest home health and hospice providers...
NCPA applauds judge’s ruling in CVS case
November 18, 2024HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association applauds a decision by a federal judge in Arizona in a class action case against CVS that a court, not an arbitrator, should decide whether a plaintiff’s claims against the company must be sent to arbitration. Judge John J. Tuchi of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona agreed with Osterhaus Pharmacy that a provision in its contract with CVS that all disputes must be decided by an arbitrator is unconscionable,...
PSN Labs responds to Philips lawsuit
October 7, 2024HME News Staff
PITTSBURGH – PSN Labs has disputed claims made by Philips that the lab caused “significant damage” to the company by conducting “numerous egregious errors in its testing and analysis” related to recalled sleep and respiratory devices. In a response filed Sept. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, PSN says the company “has continued to mischaracterize testing results in an effort to conceal the ultimate foam degradation issue.”...
NCPA, providers sue UnitedHealth Group over cyberattack
July 22, 2024HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association, along with dozens of providers from multiple states, filed a class action lawsuit July 19 against UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries Change Healthcare and Optum for losses resulting from their massive cyberattack earlier this year.
NCPA and the providers say Change Healthcare failed to take reasonable precautions against a catastrophic breach; mislead them about its network security; and caused massive financial...
Philips wants SoClean to pay part of settlement
May 16, 2024HME News Staff
PITTSBURGH – Philips has sued SoClean in a bid to get the company, whose ozone cleaners it says “attacks” the foam in its CPAP devices, to pay part of its recently announced $1.1 billion settlement.
Philips announced the settlement in April to resolve the personal injury litigation and the medical monitoring class action related to a recall of certain sleep and respiratory devices in the U.S.
“(SoClean’s) negligent and intentionally misleading...
State AG sues Apria Healthcare
March 11, 2024HME News Staff
INDIANAPOLIS – The Attorney General for the state of Indiana on Feb. 29 filed a lawsuit against Apria Healthcare related to a data breach that the state says persisted for multiple years. Apria, which had its main headquarters in Indianapolis before it was bought by Richmond, Va.-based Owens & Minor in 2022, previously provided notice of the breach in May 2023. The lawsuit requests relief on a number of counts, including award damages of up to $100 per violation for up to $25,000 per violation...
NCPA backs new PBM lawsuit
December 19, 2023HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Community Pharmacists Association is throwing its support behind another class action lawsuit filed against UnitedHealth Group and its pharmacy benefit manager, OptumRx. The lawsuit, announced by the law firms Berger Montague PC and Cohen & Gresser LLP, claims that UnitedHealth Group and OptumRx have been assessing pharmacy DIR fees in violation of federal antitrust laws and state laws governing contracts. “After years of abuse at the hands of big insurance...