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Disruptor Meets Regulator, and Regulator Wins: Lessons Learned from Theranos

USA - July 27 2016 On July 7, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") imposed several administrative penalties on Theranos, a clinical laboratory…

Obstacles in the Path? Medicare’s National Coverage Determination on Next-Generation Sequencing Has Significant Implications for Precision Medicine

USA - March 27 2018 A controversial new Medicare national coverage determination (“Medicare NCD”) for certain next-generation sequencing (“NGS”) tests published by the…

Gail H. Javitt, Ted R. Mannen, Megan E. Robertson

Six Key Changes to the Common Rule

USA - February 16 2017 On January 19, 2017, sixteen federal agencies, including the Departments of Health and Human Services and Labor, published the first…

Mark S. Armstrong

“Good Faith” Off-Label Promotions Saved Ex-Acclarent Execs from Felony Misbranding Indictments

USA - August 4 2016 Where does the line fall between good faith and criminal intent? That was the question that a Massachusetts federal jury faced in July as it…

Megan E. Robertson

The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act: Part 1: New Federal Anti-Kickback Law - Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018

USA - December 10 2018 President Trump recently signed sweeping bipartisan legislation to combat the opioid epidemic. TheSubstance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes…

Charles C. Dunham, IV, Matthew Sprankle, Richard W. Westling