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Monopolization in Healthcare Could Affect Access to Quality Treatment

HIT Consultant

The pharmaceutical industry has experienced a wave of accelerated consolidation since 2010. Common industry practice today allows small groups of large, powerful pharmaceutical manufacturers to drive new drugs through regulatory processes, acting as the gatekeepers to achieve FDA approval. million Americans.

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President Biden Signs End-of-Year Legislation Including Telehealth, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Pandemic Preparedness, and Other Health Care Provisions

C&M Health Law

Section 1001 of the Act delays the 4% Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) sequester for two years, through the end of calendar year 2024. In addition, Section 1331 of the Act authorizes grants to states to enforce and ensure compliance with mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements.

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

Recently, we have become concerned about personal injury plaintiffs deciding to sue these kinds of organizations because they don’t like some standard that stands between them and the pot of gold at the end of the litigation rainbow. Smith, LLC , 2010 WL 11566367, at *7 (N.D. has no power to enforce compliance”), aff’d , 405 F.

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Guest Post – Michigan Product Liability Law:  Retroactivity of New Law and Primer

Drug & Device Law

As the DDL blog has previously reported , Michigan’s longstanding presumption of non-defectiveness applicable to FDA-approved drugs was recently repealed by the Michigan legislature in S.B. The two of us recently wrote about the issue of retroactivity of Michigan S.B. Nothing about retroactivity. 410 repeal in Law360 (i.e.,

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