Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? Before COVID-19, a few companies, such as Livongo, made a splash in the digital health community by going public – Livongo in July 2019. Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Enrollee Participation in Plan Governance (§ 422.107). CMS believes its proposals would improve Federal and State oversight of certain D-SNPs (and their affiliated MCOs) through greater information-sharing among government regulators. Key provisions of the Proposed Rule are summarized below. Comments are due by March 7, 2022.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2021

With healthcare commercial intelligence, companies can untangle the messy web of data on delivery systems, physicians, payors, patients, government organizations and more to identify the people, opportunities and organizations that are the best fit for products. Before founding Definitive Healthcare in 2011, Jason started Infinata.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” The reason: The existing document of the EU GMP Guideline dates back to 2011 and no longer corresponds to the state of the art in various areas or does not consider increasingly important new technologies for the GMP field, according to the EMA. ” The requirements for providers (e.g.,

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has also affected Medicaid postpartum coverage. The expansion of postpartum coverage is an important opportunity for states and the federal government to improve maternal and postpartum health outcomes as well as address racial healthcare disparities. 2] Black women have a maternal mortality rate 3.3

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and funds the federal government through September 30, 2023, provides additional assistance to Ukraine, and makes numerous health care policy changes. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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Hall Render

MARCH 16, 2022

2471 ) that funds the federal government for the remainder of FY 2022. billion in new COVID-19 emergency funding requested by the White House was removed at the last moment after some rank and file House Democrats objected to a cost offset that rescinded $7 billion in unused state and local government aid from previous COVID-19 relief laws.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023) (federal government may unilaterally obtain dismissal of FCA claims, and calling the constitutionality of the FCA’s private enforcement mechanism into question) ( here ); Quishenberry v. Thus, CEH turned on implied impossibility preemption, specifically an application of Mensing ( 2011+1 ) independence principle. Polansky v.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 31, 2023

Criticizing attempts to sue publishers of scientific content, here in 2011, and again, here in 2013. Ridiculing a blatantly unconstitutional Missouri statute that sought to silence pharmacists critical of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as treatments for COVID-19, just yesterday. Finally, context also matters.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 30, 2023

About two months ago, we marveled at the notion that challenges to facially neutral state and local government vaccine requirements were still percolating through the legal system. We should not be startled to see that this flip side of COVID-era litigation also persists in 2023. IMS Health, Inc. , Reagan Nat’l Adver.

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