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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

It’s encouraging to see patients recognize what we, as healthcare providers, already know—that medications can be an effective option for people struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions,” said Dr. Brown. He was elected to serve AAPOR as its Vice President, President, and Past President from 2011-2014.

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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

The Joint National Committee 2003 defines hypertension as systolic of 140 mmHg and higher or diastolic 90 mmHg and higher. If you have any further questions or concerns, please talk with your primary care provider at your next appointment. This reading may fluctuate throughout the day. What is my goal?

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FDA Adds Additional Q&As in the Final CMC Postapproval Changes Guidance

FDA Law Blog

This final guidance provides recommendations to original applicants and holders of approved applications for human drugs and certain biological products on implementing chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) postapproval changes(s) through the use of a Comparability Protocol (CP).

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To List or Not to List; That is the Question – The FTC Signals the Potential for Greater Scrutiny of Patent Information Submissions to FDA

FDA Law Blog

Importantly though, the Policy Statement does not provide any insight into the types of listings that do not meet the statutory criteria and thus would be considered anticompetitive. And FDA did not provide a substantive response to 5 Requests for Advisory Opinions seeking clarification of the issue. Koblitz & Kurt R.

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Supreme Court Finds CMS’ Reduction of Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for 340B Hospitals was Not Authorized by Statute

FDA Law Blog

The hospitals argued that the profits helped them offset the considerable costs of providing healthcare to the uninsured and underinsured in low-income and rural communities, something that Congress was well aware of and intended when it passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Im­provement, and Modernization Act in 2003. Becerra, No.

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Not An April Fool’s Joke: California BOP Establishes Loss Reporting Thresholds

FDA Law Blog

The new regulations seek “to eliminate this excessive reporting and more closely align the Board’s regulation with the federal regulation by providing increased clarity with respect to the quantities of controlled substance losses that must be reported.” 40,576, 40,578 (July 8, 2003).

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