FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. S&G Labs is primarily compensated by patient’s insurance providers. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § EKRA Issue.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. S&G Labs is primarily compensated by patient’s insurance providers. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § EKRA Issue.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We examined the independent association between neighborhood poverty, based on DCI quintiles and access to TKAs, adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, insurance type, household median income, preexisting comorbidities, and lifestyle behaviors.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Nadine: I would argue, insurance doesn’t agree, that anyone with diabetes should be on a CGM at least initially for behavior modification. Goldilocks zone).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

These outcomes were adjusted for variables including age, race, ethnicity, income, health insurance, educational status, and coexisting medical conditions. These included how well physicians demonstrated respect, listened to individuals, explained information, and spent enough time with them.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. Then some may not take insurance, and it might be an out-of-pocket cost, which maybe some people then won’t be able to afford and so forth. I think I’m really drawn to hard conversations. Weren’t those the days?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. But to this day, I haven’t heard of an insurance company that’s willing to cover cannabis. I mean, I had a woman who completely got her life back.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. Eric: How long ago was this? Alex: A few years back.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Isn’t it weird that now we’re labeling the majority of doctors with burnout in 2018? I felt like a lot of doctors feel—they feel like they’re locked into criminal rings committing insurance fraud just to stay afloat. You get your own insurance checks. Insurance pays that. Does that make any sense at all?

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

That proposal was withdrawn by the Trump HHS, but the notion of international reference pricing was subsequently incorporated in an October 2018 HHS Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) (see our post here ).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Since the drug trial started in 2018, some of her adult patients have begun living independently, getting into college, and starting jobs — milestones that once felt impossible. Soleno said in a statement it expects broad coverage from both private and public insurers and that the copayments will be “minimal.”

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. Health insurers issue millions of denials every year. “They’re, like, not accountable to anyone.” Senate report.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 2, 2025

By Julie Appleby Tim Winard knew he needed to buy health insurance when he left his management job in manufacturing to launch his own business. After speaking with an insurance agent, he decided against enrolling in an Affordable Care Act plan because he was concerned about the potential cost. Then the bill came.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

But when the Trump administration proposed merging it with NIH in 2018, a House-ordered study into health research priorities validated AHRQ’s valuable role. To track covid, he relied on daily feeds of private insurance data from around the country. Now, the naysayers have triumphed.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 1, 2025

Salomon Melgen callously took advantage of patients who came to him fearing blindness,” said a DOJ news release after Melgen was sentenced in 2018. Melgen falsely diagnosed patients with eye diseases, then gave them unnecessary care, including laser treatments and painful eye injections, according to DOJ and court documents.

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