Tracking the most important health care lawsuits in U.S. courts today
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Issues We’re Tracking
- 340B Program 21 cases
- Equity 53 cases 1 Topics
- Federal Health Funding 58 cases 5 Topics
- Health Care Affordability 63 cases 8 Topics
- Medicare Advantage 38 cases 5 Topics
- Prescription Drug Pricing 42 cases 5 Topics
- Private Health Insurance 114 cases 13 Topics
- Reproductive Health 53 cases 5 Topics
- Transparency and Quality 9 cases

Our Team
We created the Health Care Litigation Tracker to make it easier to monitor the cases you care about and understand how courts are shaping health policy.

Katie Keith
Director of the Center for Health Policy and the Law at the O’Neill Institute

Andrew J. Twinamatsiko
Director of the Center for Health Policy and the Law at the O’Neill Institute
Latest Updates
- Status
- Case Stayed
- Court
- Fifth Circuit
- Goal
- Block enforcement of a law +1 additional goal(s)
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Fifth Circuit
- Goal
- Award damages +2 additional goal(s)
1:25-cv-10734
Pacific Inpatient Medical Group Inc. et al. v. Zelis Healthcare LLC et al.
- Filed:
- March 28, 2025
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Massachusetts
- Goal
- Award damages +3 additional goal(s)
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Texas Southern — Galveston
- Goal
- Award damages +1 additional goal(s)
1:25-cv-00070
Rapides Parish v. Department of Health & Human Services et al.
- Filed:
- January 17, 2025
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Louisiana Western
- Goal
- Block enforcement of a law +1 additional goal(s)
1:26-cv-03405
State of New York et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services et al.
- Filed:
- August 27, 2026
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Maryland — Northern
- Goal
- Block enforcement of an agency action +2 additional goal(s)
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Puerto Rico
- Goal
- Appoint independent fiduciary +3 additional goal(s)
- Status
- Decision issued
- Court
- First Circuit
- Goal
- Block enforcement of an agency action +1 additional goal(s)
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Seventh Circuit
- Goal
- Award damages +2 additional goal(s)
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Massachusetts
- Goal
- Award damages +1 additional goal(s)
- Status
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Case Dismissed
Motion to Dismiss Granted
- Court
- Texas Eastern — Texarkana
- Goal
- Award damages +3 additional goal(s)
- Status
- Briefing is ongoing
- Court
- Eighth Circuit
- Goal
- Block enforcement of a law +1 additional goal(s)
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Scheduling Conference
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Oral Argument
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Defendants’ Response to Amended Complaint Due
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Joint Status Report Due
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Plaintiffs’ Motion for Class Certification Due
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Oral Argument
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Plaintiff’s Response Brief Due
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Plaintiffs’ Response Brief Due
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Plaintiff’s Expert Disclosure Due
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