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

Innovaare Compliance

The Prescription Drug Program, commonly known as Medicare Part D, is undergoing significant transformations in 2025 due to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. Medicare Part D will have three (3) phases instead of four (4) – Deductible, Initial Coverage Phase and Catastrophic Phase. generics) in the catastrophic phase.

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Ensuring Safety and Quality in America’s Nursing Homes

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Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The SSAs visit and survey every Medicare and Medicaid participating nursing home in the nation at least annually to ensure they are meeting CMS’ health and safety requirements as well as state licensure requirements. Ensuring Safety and Quality in America’s Nursing Homes.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Companies like Pear Therapeutics, Limbix, Applied VR and Click Therapeutics are treating people with clinically validated and FDA-approved (or pending) digital interventions. Compared with Medicare or other populations, Medicaid patients often have more complex social determinants of health and can cycle in and out of beneficiary status.

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FDA Oversight of AI Software Developed by Health Care Providers

Health Law Advisor

But the question is, to what extent do health care providers need to worry about FDA requirements as they use AI? FDA has been regulating machine learning algorithms used in a clinical context for decades. It’s important to understand that FDA regulation isn’t punitive in the sense that it’s only intended to apply to bad people.

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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

Telehealth Section 4113 of the Act extends certain Medicare telehealth flexibilities that were allowed during the COVID-19 PHE for two years, through 2024. The section ensures that telehealth flexibilities under Medicare are extended for two years, regardless of the status of the PHE.

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President Signs FY 2022 Funding Bill into Law with 340B, Telehealth and Other Health Care Provisions

Hall Render

The measure includes funding for health care-related agencies, such as HHS, CMS, HRSA and the FDA, as well as several health care policy riders and provisions that address issues like 340B and telehealth waivers. On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 ( H.R.

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The BFDs – The Ten Best Prescription Drug/Medical Device Decisions of 2023

Drug & Device Law

2023) (rejecting any express anti-preemption presumption in Medicare case) ( here ); Baker v. Since the FDA requires pre-approval of any warnings about off-label uses, preemption at some point should have been pre-ordained under the Mensing ( 2011+1 ) independence principle, but off-label use did not really figure in Zofran ’s analysis.

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