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Understanding the 2025 Medicare Part D Re-design: What You Need to Know

Innovaare Compliance

2] The current Coverage Gap Discount Program (CGDP), pursuant to the Affordable Care Act 2010 , [3] will be sunset on December 31, 2024. 6] A compound drug not approved by the FDA under a New Drug Application or Biological License Application does not meet the definition of an applicable drug and will not be eligible for Part D.

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CMS Updates IPPS Rates, Wage Index and DSH Uncompensated Care in 2024 Final Rule

Hall Render

New Medical Technologies Beginning in 2025, CMS will require add-on payment applicants to have completed an FDA marketing request and provide documentation of such filing and FDA acceptance of the application by May 1 (rather than the current July 1 deadline) of the year prior to the beginning of the FY in which CMS is considering the application.

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States and Feds Signal Big Changes to Telehealth Prescribing

Health Law Advisor

On February 14, 2023, the Utah Senate passed a bill that would repeal the State’s “Online Prescribing, Dispensing, and Facilitation Licensing Act” (“Online Prescribing Act”). 2] Statements of Charges may be found on the Washington State Department of Health website, filed under the individual provider’s name and/or license number.

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

Drug & Device Law

For qualified IMGs, it issues a certification, which IMGs can then use to apply to residency and other graduate medical education programs and to apply for state medical licenses. Smith, LLC , 2010 WL 11566367, at *7 (N.D. May 14, 2010) (“Defendant [standards institute’s] standards are voluntary, consensus standards, and Defendant. .

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TwIqbal And Punitive Damages

Drug & Device Law

2010) (applying TwIqbal because “[p]unitive damages are never awarded as a matter of right, are disfavored by the law”). These allegations lack any contention or inference that [defendant] withheld or misrepresented information to the FDA. . ., 2010) (other citations and quotation marks omitted). Corrections Corp. , 2, 2020). “In

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Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Based on Implied Preemption

Drug & Device Law

640.65, an FDA biologics regulation that requires entities that collect blood via a particular method to establish “donor identification system[s]” that “positively identifies each donor and relates such donor directly to his blood and its components as well as to his accumulated records and laboratory data.”. 2010 WL 894054 (N.D.

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The FDA and Feasible Alternative Designs

Drug & Device Law

But in prescription medical product liability litigation, products must receive FDA approval, clearance or other authorization (hereafter, collectively referred to as “approval” for short) before they can be marketed. Are manufacturers liable only for failing to employ an alternative design that the FDA has approved for distribution. . .

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