4/29/2023 1:12:41 AM CMS proposes Medicaid changes that are likely to have significant impact on beneficiaries and Medicaid MCO payments By Nicole Aiken-Shaban Matthew Loughran The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a pair of proposed rules on April 27, 2023 that make substantial changes to...
4/27/2023 6:35:03 PM A Potential Route to RADV Judicial Review: Part III By James Segroves In part I, we discussed whether federal district courts could exercise jurisdiction under the federal-question statute over legal...
4/27/2023 1:20:12 AM DACA Recipients Can Enroll in Qualified Health Plans under Proposed HHS Rule By Matthew Loughran The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that removes an exception to the definition...
4/25/2023 3:25:08 PM HHS Proposes Bridge Access Program for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments By Peter Terreri On April 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced its plan to maintain access to COVID-19 vaccines...
4/24/2023 5:41:27 PM Proposed changes to HIPAA highlight increased demands for third party access to reproductive health data By Catherine David Brad Rostolsky Smita Patil Whitney Petrie Adriana Santomero +2 more... Show less On Monday, April 12, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice of proposed...
4/21/2023 2:40:21 PM New Opportunities, New Challenges: FDA Elaborates on use of Digital Health in Drug and Biological Product Development By Sarah Thompson Schick Rebecca Jones McKnight Vicki Tankle Roswill Mejia +1 more... Show less Note: This is Part 1 in a series of blog posts on developments from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) regarding its...
4/20/2023 2:59:30 PM A Potential Route to RADV Judicial Review: Part II By James Segroves In part I, we discussed whether federal district courts could exercise jurisdiction under the federal-question statute over legal...
4/19/2023 1:46:42 PM OIG approves lab company’s gift card proposal for colorectal cancer screening kits By Smita Patil On March 24, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued an advisory opinion in...
4/14/2023 11:51:27 PM Reed Smith’s Ninth Annual Washington Health Care Conference is Here! By Matthew Loughran Taking a quick break from your regularly scheduled health policy and litigation analysis to let you know, if you want to get some of this...
4/13/2023 3:41:17 PM A Potential Route to RADV Judicial Review: Part I By James Segroves The Medicare Act does not expressly provide for judicial review of overpayment determinations made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
4/12/2023 1:33:50 PM Mifepristone Cases – Our Thoughts By Scot T. Hasselman Lesley Reynolds Whitney Petrie Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less On April 7, 2023, only minutes apart, two federal district courts issued rulings on cases challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s...
4/6/2023 7:46:13 PM Regulators and class action plaintiffs direct attention to health care websites’ and mobile apps’ use of third-party trackers By Matthew Loughran Health care and health care-adjacent organizations are seeing a steep increase in risk arising from the frequently utilized third-party...