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CMS Proposes Minimum Staffing Requirements and Enhanced Facility Assessments for Nursing Homes

C&M Health Law

Interestingly, both the proposed standard and the evaluated range of standards are below the standard that this same outside consultant recommended in 2001 of 4.1 HPRD, which is often cited in False Claims Act cases and enforcement actions by the Department of Justice and state Medicaid Fraud Control Units. HPRD consisted of 0.75

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A Texas Mess

Drug & Device Law

Finally, while PREP Act preemption is the focus of today’s post, to the extent that the Texas Complaint can be read to allege – and we think it can – either: (1) direct fraud on the FDA or (2) that the FDA’s approvals (both emergency and/or final) of the defendant’s vaccine should not have been granted, Buckman Co. 247d-6d(b)(8).

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Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Claims Targeting a Biologic

Drug & Device Law

Before a biologic may be marketed, the manufacturer must obtain a license from the FDA. Plaintiff received the biologic just months after it had been licensed by the FDA. 341 (2001). Regardless of its underpinnings, Buckman clearly proscribes as preempted state-law fraud-on-the-FDA claims. See 42 U.S.C. § See 21 C.F.R.

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