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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

The bill passed by a voice vote and was referred to the State and Local Government Committee. The Minnesota Council of Health Plans (MCHP) raised concerns, as the bill enacts new regulations on health plans, and they contend they have little control over pricing set by drug manufacturers. Read a summary of S.F. Read a summary of H.F.

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4th Circuit En Banc Judgment Affirms District Court Decision in Best Price Stacking Case

FDA Law

47 (2007), which addressed the intent standard under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The controversy over the FCA’s intent standard where the applicable statute or regulation is ambiguous has special relevance when the FCA is used to target inaccurate government price calculations. of America v. Burr , 551 U.S.

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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

Food and Drug Administration to market a new drug is a critical waypoint along the path to profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers. In the meantime, lobbyists working for the drug manufacturers successfully blocked efforts by Medicare administrators to stop paying for the higher (harmful) doses. Approval from the U.S.

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Skinny Label and Induced Infringement: The Saga Continues

FDA Law

government in the now-infamous (at least in FDA circles) Teva v. In the brief , the Government takes a strong position, stating “[t]he court of appeals’ holding that respondents presented sufficient evidence of petitioner’s intent to induce infringement is erroneous and warrants this Court’s review.” GSK skinny label case , the U.S.

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Court Strikes Down CMS’s Accumulator Adjustment Rule That Threatened Manufacturer Patient Savings Programs

FDA Law

By Faraz Siddiqui — Last June, we blogged about a lawsuit brought by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) challenging CMS’s ill-conceived Accumulator Adjustment Rule (“final rule”), which amended the Medicaid Rebate best price regulation. On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, the D.C.

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Navigating Executive Orders and DOJ Memos That Threaten Criminal Prosecution

FDA Law

118, 129 (2007) (quoting Abbott Labs v. Below, we highlight some of the challenges we would see in the governments attempt to pursue these cases. MedImmune, Inc. Genentech, Inc., Gardner , 387 U.S. 136, 152 (1967)). Driehaus , 573 U.S. 149, 158 (2014). The AGs memo may well be relevant to establishing an impending and credible threat.