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Physician's Weekly
JUNE 19, 2025
When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. Since she was still working, she thought her employer health insurance plan would cover her. This time, though, the insurance coverage wasn’t routine.
FDA Law Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. 11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). By Larry K. Zarzamora Press Release.
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Physician's Weekly
JUNE 24, 2025
Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. “I’m sort of hectoring,” she acknowledged. Kennedy Jr.,
FDA Law Blog
MAY 19, 2025
Opioid prescriptions for high dosages and quantities, including prescriptions that individually or in combination, provide patients with daily dosages of greater than or equal to 300 Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MMEs). Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois, April 21, 2025. 81, 89, 251.
FDA Law Blog
JUNE 27, 2024
After issuing an Order to Show Cause and Immediate Suspension of Registration in September 2022, and an administrative hearing in March 2023, DEA adopted the hearing Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ’s”) Recommended Decision to revoke Coconut Grove’s registration based on the public interest factors of 21 U.S.C. 823(g)(1). Patient J.C.’s
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.” Eric: Okay.
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 12, 2025
An “improper” payment refers to payments made erroneously to beneficiaries and their providers or without sufficient documentation. In a 2024 report covering the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, Medicaid’s parent agency — the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — said the rate was about 5.1%.
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