Alexandra PearsallThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published a Notice and Request for Comments regarding a potential proposal to impose less stringent regulations on biopharmaceutical…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published proposed changes to the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law to address concerns that these laws…
George MikhailOn November 26, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new rule aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs and…
CMS Proposes New Rule to Expand Telehealth Benefits Under Medicare Advantage Plans
Day PitneyThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new rule that, effective plan year 2020, would allow Medicare Advantage (“MA”) insurers to…
Patients are receiving opioids at a rate that is nearly four times what they actually use following surgery. A study published in JAMA Surgery on…
On the heels of the end of the comment period for input on reducing the regulatory burdens of the Physician Self-referral Law (also known as…
In United States v. Mehmood, the Sixth Circuit affirmed the conviction of Zafar Mehmood and Badar Ahmadani but vacated their sentences and remanded for resentencing.…
Day Pitney’s Michael Furey was quoted in a July 24 article, “An inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs – and quality – in plan…
California’s Dreaming of Tougher Health-Care Privacy
An August 2 article in Bloomberg Law’s Health Law & Life Sciences News, “California’s Dreaming of Tougher Health-Care Privacy,” discussed the California Consumer Privacy Act, a…
The proposed rule released on July 12 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would create new billing codes that, if approved, will…