On July 18, 2017, FDA held a public meeting to address efforts to ensure a balance between innovation in drug development and accelerating the access of the public to lower-cost alternatives to innovator drug therapies is maintained under the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act.
The Group Purchasing Organization sector continues to drive down healthcare costs for hospital and nursing facility purchases, while facilitating bringing new products to market – that’s the key finding from the latest Annual Report from the Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative HGPII.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its annual proposed update to the hospital outpatient prospective payment system for calendar year 2018.
AnMed Health, a hospital located in South Carolina, recently agreed to pay almost $1.3 million dollars and enter into a settlement agreement with the HHS Office of Inspector General to resolve allegations that it violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
In a setback to the Washington, DC metropolitan area, the Trump Administration announced earlier this week that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will remain in its obsolete downtown Washington headquarters for the foreseeable future.
On July 11, 2017, President Trump issued an executive order extending the review period established by EO 13761 of January 13, 2017, which set forth criteria for the revocation of certain sanctions on Sudan and the Government of Sudan.
Earlier this year, Abid Hospital in Pakistan began accepting PakCoin (a cryptocurrency similar to Bitcoin) as payment for healthcare services, paving the way for innovative medical payment solutions in Asia.
In the first ruling of its type, the Ninth Circuit held that an employer’s attorney can be sued for retaliating against an employee who sued his client.
Since 2012, Barnes & Noble has been fighting claims arising from a data breach that affected its credit card pin pad machines. Now, the Barnes & Noble “Pin Pad” litigation is finally over.
Last week, the FDA released a draft guidance titled Product Identifier Requirements Under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act—Compliance Policy, with a 60-day comment period ending around September 3, 2017.
A class of plaintiffs succeeded earlier this month in persuading a New Jersey federal court that trade and professional associations may violate the antitrust laws by tying benefits to association membership.
Continuing a trend that is certain to keep growing, three consumer groups recently filed a lawsuit against Sanderson Farms alleging false advertising for their poultry products labeled “100 percent natural.”
On June 14, 2017, Governor John Carney signed a new law that will prevent Delaware employers from requesting the salary history of job applicants.
On June 21, the Food and Drug Administration announced a Drug Competition Action Plan in order to attempt to address ways that the agency’s rules have been, in the agency’s view, “gamed” to create obstacles that delay generic drug approvals to reduce generic competition.
Nevada is the latest state in the Union to adopt some form of a drug pricing transparency law, after Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill No. 539 into law on June 15, 2017.
On June 17, 2017, the Supreme Court struck down the disparagement clause of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment of the Constitution. Matal v. Tam, 582 U.S. ____ (2017).
After weeks of closed-door meetings about the content of the Senate’s health care bill, Senate Republicans released a “discussion draft” of their legislation on Thursday.
After weeks of secrecy and speculation about the content of the Senate’s health care bill, Senate Republicans released a “discussion draft” of their bill on Thursday.
On June 15th, 2017, Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and the Budget, issued OMB Memorandum M-17-26, which purports to reduce the “Burden for Federal Agencies by Rescinding and Modifying [previous] OMB Memoranda.”
In April 2016, we issued an alert regarding a California Superior Court’s summary judgment ruling against a retailer on claims that its website violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Medical providers seeking to pursue state law claims for payment from health care payers scored a win in the Second Circuit last month in a holding that affirms providers’ ability to hold health care insurers and other payers to their payment representations and promises.
On Friday, June 16, 2017, President Donald Trump announced changes to the US-Cuba policy for individual travel to the island nation and engaging in transactions with entities associated with the Cuban military, intelligence or security services.
The Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware recently issued a decision that will undoubtedly influence strategies in bankruptcy cases involving plugging and abandonment liabilities.