FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

District Court for the District of Texas on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC for repeatedly dispensing opioids and other controlled substances “by filling prescriptions while ignoring red flags.” The Government alleged that Coconut Grove violated numerous federal and state controlled substance laws. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § 823(g)(1)(B), (D).

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In October 2022, FDA released the draft guidance entitled “Select Updates for the Breakthrough Devices Program Guidance: Reducing Disparities in Health and Healthcare,” as previously discussed in our blog.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. JAMA Health Forum.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The three letters together provide the range of actions DEA may take: no rescheduling from schedule I (former drug officials), rescheduling to schedule III (Democratic state attorneys general), or descheduling altogether (Democratic senators). (We We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden).

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. Really, across the board, there was a spike, and it seemed to have, seems to have come down from 2022 to 2023.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

population, and a near-doubling in outpatient visits to advanced practice providers (the majority of whom work in medical subspecialties) wasn't enough to make up for this deficit. This is where the federal government must step up. The number of visits to primary care physicians fell by 43% from 2010 to 2021 despite 7.4%

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations Show Notes by Kiersten T. April 25, 2023 Show Transcript Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report finding that, for the years 2016-2018, the pharmaceutical industry spent on average for a sample of 553 drug products approximately $6 billion annually on DTC advertisements, with a significant portion of this spending allocated to television commercials. In 2021, the U.S.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? And so we’re able to provide access to those patients that may be home-bound or home limited or have a lot of struggles to get in. Stories trump data.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 26, 2025

Specifically, these are procedures and drugs used in providing what HHS had, until recently, referred to as gender-affirming care. Department of Health & Human Services purporting to provide a comprehensive review of the evidence and best practices for promoting the health of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Now to the federal government that is going way beyond what I think people truly understand. Well played.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department. Nobody does these things except AHRQ,” she said.

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