Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, Arizona has experienced difficulty parsing the legality and severity of its abortion bans, leaving patients and providers concerned. Recently, Arizona's Supreme Court validated an 1864 ban on abortion that reignited the back-and-forth.
After the high court's decision, Democrats in the...
Arizona garnered national attention last week when the state's Supreme Court determined that 1864 abortion ban that criminalizes the practice and makes no exception other than to save the life of the mother may stand as state law.
Governor Katie Hobbs issued a statement in response invoking the executive order she signed last year...
Last week, the Florida Supreme Court held that the state could implement a highly restrictive recent law that would all but completely outlaw the practice of abortion in the state. Not to be outdone, the Arizona Supreme Court resurrected an archaic law that predates statehood by fifty years to all but completely outlaw the practice of...
A pregnant woman in Texas requested emergency authorization for an abortion from the Texas Supreme Court last week which the court subsequently denied.
Katie Cox, 31, is 20 weeks pregnant and was informed by her healthcare providers that it was likely that her baby would not survive gestation or birth, and the complications arising...
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes told the Arizona Supreme Court that her office's decision to not enforce a Territorial era abortion ban means that no one can enforce the ban. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched an investigation that could lead to enforcement of the Emergency Labor and Transport Act...Arizona News
This week in reproductive health care news, anti-abortion activists ask the Arizona Supreme Court to reinstitute the Territorial-era total ban on abortion.
Attorneys for the Alliance Defending Freedom contend that the state appellate court was incorrect when it said the law did not apply to abortion providers. The Capitol Times...Arizona News
The decision is binding on all hospitals in Arizona, eliminating any chance that hospitals will be able to recover from pharmacies any alleged financial losses caused by the opioid epidemic.
In 2018, Tucson Medical Center (TMC) filed a lawsuit claiming CVS was part of a conspiracy of drug manufacturers and others that promoted the use...Arizona News
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday that hospitals are not permitted to go after payments owed to a patient if they accept payments from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the state's Medicaid program.
Sections of state law have previously authorized hospitals to impose liens on patients when AHCCCS...News
Plaintiff Goldwater Institute said the money the legislature used to fund the expanded Medicaid program was actually a tax and should have received a two-thirds vote that the state constitution requires of all revenue-raising measures.
The Phoenix Business Journal quotes Greg Vigdor, president and CEO of the Arizona Hospital and...Arizona News
At issue is how dying people can get access to unapproved medicines.
The FDA permitted two people infected with the Ebola virus to be administered ZMapp, even though the drug had not been approved for human testing. The Goldwater Institute goes to court Tuesday, Oct. 10, trying to force the FDA to reveal details on how dying people...Arizona News
The filing is at odds with the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association position.
The assertion of the AzHHA is that the cost to its hospital members is less than the benefit they receive from having fewer patients show up at their doors without insurance, whose bills would have to be written off as bad debt.
Green Valley...Arizona News
The question is whether the levy funding expanded Medicaid program is a "tax" or an "assessment".
Governor Ducey's administration is asking the high court to reject arguments brought by the Goldwater Institute asserting that taxes can be enacted only with a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate, which did not happen in this...
