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CMS Issues Long-Awaited Medicare Advantage RADV Final Rule

Healthcare Law Blog

Case Law : CMS argued that “courts have held that sampling and extrapolation are a valid method of calculating improper Medicare payments, so long as statistically valid methods are used. See United States v. Lahey Clinic Hosp., 3d 1, 18 n.19 19 (1st Cir.

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A Health-Heavy State of the Union

Kaiser Health News

So Humira is one of the first biologics to lose patent protection, where patients actually fill the prescriptions themselves and give themselves the medicine, which is a very different payment system than if you’re getting a biologic medicine at a doctor’s office or a hospital.

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How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

Drug & Device Law

The 2005 revisions to Article 2 excludes “information” from the definition of goods and also defines computer software as “information.” Alaska 2005), predicted that Alaska would follow the Third Restatement “defin[ition] of a product as ‘tangible personal property distributed commercially for use or consumption.” Id. Munhoven v.