Nearly a score of state attorneys general asked a federal judge in California on Wednesday to temporarily block the Trump administration from ending critical subsidy payments to insurers selling coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general is expanding its investigation into Big Pharmas alleged role in the prescription painkiller and heroin addiction epidemic gripping the nation.

A judge's unusually lengthy sentence of 75 years for cancer-stricken Marie Neba -- more than the 35 the government had recommended -- has health care legal experts puzzled.

Molina, as well as four other insurers in ACA risk-corridor litigation, is represented on the legal side by the law firm of Reed Smith. Now the lead attorney tells what it's like to help health care clients navigate these uncertain times.

Members whose claims for residential and intensive outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment were rejected by Blue Shield of California and Magellan Health can proceed with a class action suit against the two insurers.

The House has weighed in on a legal battle over whether the federal government owes health insurance companies billions of dollars under an ACA program designed to encourage participation in the public exchanges.

In the lead-up to the trials over the insurance company mergers, one health care attorney notes there were a number of in-house attorneys who made moves or started to put their resumes out, as the future of their legal departments were in question.

Last July, the DOJ sued to block Anthem's acquisition of Cigna. Earlier this year, a U.S. district judge blocked the merger. Anthem appealed.