Litigation
This page contains materials related to AHA’s current and active policy-related litigation.
AHA urges the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to deny the Department of Health and Human Services’ request to modify a court order requiring it to completely eliminate the remaining 19,802 Medicare appeals backlogged at the Administration Law Judge level. HHS now contends that it…
The AHA and Association of American Medical Colleges amicus brief in support of the federal government’s motion for preliminary injunction for an Idaho law, which is slated to go into effect Aug. 25. At issue is whether the state law can coexist with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and…
AHA, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Association of American Medical Colleges in a friend-of-the-court brief asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center violated its fiduciary duties by selecting a…
The AHA and other hospital groups urged the courts to require drug companies to fulfill their legal obligations.
The AHA and other hospital and health care organizations urge the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to rehear Wit v. United Behavioral Health.
The AHA and American Medical Association urge the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to act as quickly as possible to hold unlawful and vacate all provisions they are challenging in the federal government’s interim final rule on surprise medical billing, which took effect in January.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
The U.S. Supreme Court today allowed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate to go into effect nationwide, while blocking the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) vaccine requirements from taking effect.
The AHA joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Medical Association in urging the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a district court decision that refused to allow a case involving the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 to proceed in federal court and sent it…