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COBRA subsidy extended

  • Ballard Spahr LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 21 2009

Congress has approved measures to extend the COBRA subsidy rules that were initially enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA

COBRA premium subsidy extended

  • Bryan Cave LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2010

An extension of the COBRA premium subsidy initially enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was signed into law by President Obama on December 19, 2009

DME supplier, HHA enforcement efforts

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 12 2009

December 29, 2008, CMS announced that it has revoked the billing privileges of more than 1,100 medical equipment suppliers in south Florida and the Los Angeles area as part of its DMEPOS High-Risk Suppliers Demonstration

Medicare Part DMedicare advantage rules

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 12 2009

On January 12, 2009, CMS published a final rule that revises Medicare's definition of Part D negotiated prices to require drug plan sponsors to use the amount paid to a pharmacy (rather than the sometimes lower "lock in price" paid to a pharmacy benefit manager) as the basis for determining cost sharing for beneficiaries and for reporting a plan's drug costs to CMS

COBRA subsidy law expanded: department of labor issues guidance and model notices

  • Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2010

On December 19, the Department of Defense Appropriation Act extended and expanded the COBRA premium subsidy law that was set to expire on December 31

Department of Labor announces that sample notices for extended COBRA subsidy will be forthcoming

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2010

As you will recall from my earlier post, Congress and the President extended the COBRA subsidy, originally a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (the stimulus bill), to individuals involuntary terminated through February 28, 2010 (from December 31, 2009) and the length of the subsidy to 15 months (from 9 months

FDA finalizes guidance document on OTC drug labeling

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 12 2009

The FDA has issued final guidance on “Labeling OTC Human Drug Products Questions and Answers.”

Medicare Administrative Contractors

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 12 2009

On January 7, 2009, CMS announced the final five Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) that will process and pay Medicare Part A and Part B fee-for-service claims in 14 states

"Citizen Petition" to FDA raised genuine issues on sham exception to Noerr-Penington doctrine

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2009

On October 14, 2008, a federal district court in New York denied defendant pharmaceutical companies' motion for summary judgment after finding genuine issues of fact existed as to whether 1) the sham exception to antitrust immunity under the Noerr-Penington doctrine applied to defendants' filing of a Citizen Petition to the FDA to block the approval of generic drug manufacturers' applications; and 2) defendants' Petition in fact delayed the generic manufacturers' applications

2010 MAPart D Prescription Drug Plan Draft Call Letter

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 12 2009

CMS has released draft 2010 Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD), Cost-Based Plan, and Stand Alone Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) Call Letter