Weekly Update: Best children’s hospitals | Updates after Helene | Ghost guns case | Texas sues PBMs | PE buys Surescripts

The 18th annual rankings of the nation's best children's hospitals has been released by U.S. News & World Report, highlighting the top places for young patients to receive exceptional care in 2024-2025.

The hospital was prepared for Hurricane Helene and has maintained operations, despite being in the epicenter of destruction.

Baxter's IV plant in North Carolina was flooded by Hurricane Helene. That plant provides 60% of the U.S. supply of IV bags. 

There are still over 72,000 cases brought against multiple drug companies pending in Delaware and California. 

The groups are urging the Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling in Garland v. VanDerStok that permits the ATF to regulate firearms made from part kits. 

The agency has received an increasing number of complaints from patients enrolled in a low-value health plan without their knowledge. If finalized, a new rule would empower CMS to ban brokers from the ACA marketplace. 

Two weeks ago, the FTC launched a similar antitrust suit. The pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical companies are accused of artificially raising drug costs through rebates and kickbacks.

TPG will not own a majority of the e-prescriber, with CVS Health and Express Scripts maintaining a minority stake.

Prosecutors said Ester Mbaya stole Medicare funds and took out lines of credit using falsified documents. She pleaded guilty to the charges.