Health Law & Policy Matters distills the issues for our busy readers as well as shares creative ideas about improving the nation’s health care system. It’s the goal of the blog’s editor and contributors—Mintz Levin attorneys and a government relations professional from ML Strategies—to highlight the most relevant information about health care reform, including HIPAA, Medicare, ACOs, fraud and abuse, enforcement, compliance, regulatory challenges, and other issues facing providers, insurers, employers, employees, and individuals.
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Pharmacy Benefit Managers are on the Federal Government’s Radar: Senate, House, and Agency Proposals Seek to Increase PBM Oversight - Part 1
USA - June 6 2023 In conjunction with the surge in state legislative efforts to regulate the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry, Congress and federal agencies…
My Health, My Data! Washington State Enacts Broad Health Data Privacy Protection Law
USA - May 24 2023 Washington greatly expanded the protection for consumers’ identifiable health information by enacting the “My Health My Data Act” (MHMDA), in an…
New York Joins Other States with Health Care Transaction Review Laws
USA - May 11 2023 On May 3, 2023, New York joined Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and California in enacting…
Telehealth Update: DEA Issues Temporary Rule on Prescribing Controlled Substances via Telehealth as the Public Health Emergency Comes to an End
USA - May 10 2023 As we previously covered, in March 2023, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced a proposed rule on prescribing controlled substances via…
New California Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Laws
USA - May 4 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with worsening mental health across the country, and California is no exception. Not surprisingly, Governor Gavin…
OIG Announces Long Overdue Modernization of its Compliance Program Guidance Documents
USA - May 3 2023 The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced on April 24, 2023 that it will soon issue long overdue…
Are You Ready? How to Prepare for the End of OCR’s Public Health Emergency HIPAA Enforcement Discretion
USA - May 1 2023 In April, 2020, in an effort to facilitate a national pivot to telehealth in light of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the U.S. Department…
Moving Towards MOCRA Implementation: FDA Announces Industry “Listening Session”
USA - April 28 2023 Since the late December 2022 seismic shift in the legal landscape for cosmetic companies - when Congress passed and President Biden signed the…
The End of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency is Near: What to Expect as HHS Transitions beyond the Emergency Phase
USA - April 27 2023 With less than two weeks left until the end of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), which is set to expire on May 11, 2023, the…
CMS Issues Updated Guidance for Home Dialysis Provided at Nursing Homes
USA - April 25 2023 On March 22, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued updated guidance for home dialysis services performed in a skilled…
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