FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(2). 18 U.S.C. § EKRA Issue.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Bob changed jobs, the price tag for his daughter’s medication went through the roof. In this first installment of a two-part series, “An Arm and a Leg” shares lessons from Bob’s experience navigating a maze of pharmacies and insurance companies to get his daughter the medicine she needs. Claire: And it was.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. Brian: For the use of substances like psilocybin and LSD in medical care, or at least in investigational treatments, I like to call it psychedelic therapy. Or is that your medications causing that? Or does it?

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

DEA regulations state that a pharmacist has a corresponding responsibility not to fill a prescription unless it is issued for a “legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of [their] professional practice.” Cocktail Medications. Gulf Med Pharmacy at 72,695. at 72,729-30. Payment in Cash.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Or they might, you know, they might sell their medication, which this population is also prone to. Who’s going to manage these medications?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. Eric: Yeah.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This occurred in January 2022 when the Departments issued additional guidance , which discussed reports of denial of coverage in violation of the ACA requirement and provided a reminder to plans and issuers of their responsibilities under the statute and 2019 HRSA Guideline (FAQ Part 51, Q9).

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As it stands, the rule allows insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to broadly use copay accumulator programs, which have long been criticized by patient advocacy groups as padding insurers’ pockets while leaving patients high and dry. 156.130(h) to explicitly allow insurers to broadly use copay accumulator programs.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Medicaid and its closely related Children’s Health Insurance program provides health care and long-term care to roughly 83 million lower-income beneficiaries , accounting for about one-fifth of health care spending overall. The White House did not respond to an inquiry for this article. How High Is the Medicaid Improper Payment Rate?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Few HHS Secretaries have actually been medical doctors; Dr. Price was the first M.D. The majority of the department's budget funds the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs. See Samoa, 2019.) to hold the position in 24 years. Smaller portions are distributed to researchers through competitive grant applications.

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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.”

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 1, 2025

Trump has empowered the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, which he established and named by executive order, to make deep cuts in federal budgets , halting some medical research and aid programs in addition to cutting spending on climate change, transgender health, and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

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