5/15/2025 8:42:55 PM Trump Executive Orders seek to encourage reshoring of pharmaceutical manufacturing and research By Vicki Tankle Sarah Thompson Schick Matthew Loughran On May 5, the Trump Administration issued a pair of executive orders that could signal big changes for the drug industry and health...
11/13/2024 1:59:01 PM 2024 Election Results Could Mean Significant Restrictions on Reproductive Rights By Scot T. Hasselman Lesley Reynolds Whitney Petrie Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less The 2024 elections created a bit of a mixed result for reproductive rights in the United States. A number of states passed ballot...
3/8/2024 1:00:00 PM Antitrust and Health Care Fraud Enforcers Launch Inquiry into Private Equity Ownership in Health Care By Nicole Aiken-Shaban Michelle Mantine The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
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...
3/31/2023 8:22:26 PM Proposed legislation to tackle Medicare Advantage upcoding in response to overpayment concerns By Scot T. Hasselman Nicole Aiken-Shaban Ellen Pighini On March 27, 2023, two United States Senators, Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the bipartisan No Unreasonable...
12/17/2022 12:54:33 AM HHS OCR Issues Bulletin on HIPAA Compliance for Tracking Technologies By Vicki Tankle Angela Matney Wendy Choi The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued a bulletin highlighting...
8/1/2022 5:29:39 PM Supreme Court judgment triggers abortion bans in states, legislative action in others By Lesley Reynolds Sarah Cummings Stewart Lara Parkin Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less The U.S. Supreme Court on July 26 issued its judgment in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, officially setting in motion...
7/6/2022 3:27:29 AM Unanswered Questions on Privacy and Employment from Supreme Court Overturn of Roe v. Wade By Matthew Loughran As the health care industry as a whole comes to grips with the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in...
6/27/2022 1:28:46 PM Unanswered Questions for Employee Benefits Plans from Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade By Matthew Loughran Now that U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the implications of that action will be felt...
6/25/2022 12:00:00 PM Supreme Court Overturns Roe and Casey By Sarah Cummings Stewart Lesley Reynolds Matthew Loughran In an opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito and joined by four of the other conservatives, The Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson...
6/24/2022 1:22:27 PM Unanswered questions for health care and fertility providers from Supreme Court overturn of Roe v. Wade By Matthew Loughran Now that U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the implications of that action will be far...
6/17/2022 12:00:00 PM Unanswered questions for pharmacies if Supreme Court decides to overturn Roe v. Wade By Matthew Loughran As noted in an earlier post here, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue an opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case...
6/16/2022 12:00:00 PM California AG urges mobile app companies to safeguard reproductive health data By Matthew Loughran As the U.S. Supreme Court inches closer to the end of its term and a decision in a Mississippi abortion law case that is expected to...
6/8/2022 6:37:01 PM FTC announces inquiry into PBM practices and orders PBMs to provide information By Joseph Metro Robert Hill Edward Schwartz William Sheridan Matthew Loughran +2 more... Show less On June 7, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it would conduct an inquiry into the competitive impact of contracting...
2/23/2021 8:21:24 PM FDA and USDA battle over regulating genetically engineered animals By Cori Goldberg Sung Park Taber Rueter Yuxin Jin +1 more... Show less A substantial shift for genetically engineered (“GE”) food regulation may be on the horizon thanks to a USDA proposed rule with a fast...
3/24/2020 9:51:21 PM MedPAC recommends Medicare payment updates for 2021 – but all rate bets are off in light of COVID-19 By Debra McCurdy The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released its 2021 Medicare provider rate update recommendations on March 13, 2020 – the...