Envision Healthcare Corp. and its subsidiaries won dismissal of a False Claims Act suit alleging that they engaged in a scheme to submit claims to Medicare and TRICARE for anesthesia services that were tainted by kickbacks.

The president would have to impose sanctions on individuals or entities that facilitate forced organ harvesting — the removal of an organ from a person via coercion, abduction, fraud, or abuse of power — under H.R. 1154.

The Health Resources and Services Administration sent letters to several hospitals that participate in a federal drug discount program earlier this month, asking the hospitals to provide detailed information about how they comply with the program’s requirements.

HHS, DOL Formalize Anti-Child Labor Exploitation Partnership

A House committee advanced a Republican bill banning certain methods for measuring the effectiveness of prescription drugs, a move backed by major disability rights groups but opposed by the pharmaceutical industry’s biggest critics.

Another “maximum strength” pain relief deception suit has advanced, as a federal judge said Target Corp. must face a proposed class of consumers who say they were misled by the labels of its Up & Up lidocaine patches.