The EEOC is challenging auto-rejection practices amid a national reckoning over the personal and societal costs of unemployment for those who served time.

Although policy changes often lag a year or 2 behind trends, the gap suggests that there's a need for employers to address lingering effects of the pandemic and other issues affecting workers' mental well-being, says a new survey.

While the FDA has implemented standards for Direct-to-Consumer TV and Radio Prescription Drug Advertising, Senators Dick Durbin and Mike Braun say it's not enough, with the surge in social media drug promotion.

As the DOJ conducts an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth's Optum business unit, the health insurer has moved its chief legal officer into a new role overseeing governance, compliance and security.

The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have set up a new state relations unit to combat antitrust issues in health care and the expanding cloud of private equity in shaping the health care sector's future.

The 3 federal agencies all but declared war Tuesday on private equity firms' growing ownership and control of health care at an FTC forum, as PE firms have spent more than $1 trillion on health care acquisitions over the past decade.

With the new independent contractor standard, the U.S. Department of Labor is "essentially putting their thumb on the scale to encourage a finding of employment," Baker & Hostetler partner Todd Lebowitz said.

Concerns that the mergers raise consumer prices and reduce access to health care have sparked the state-level scrutiny, as the FTC has been slowing the rapid pace of acquisitions and consolidations at the federal level.