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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

SENATE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) COMMITTEE On Tuesday, March 18, 2025, the Senate HHS Committee heard a series of health care bills: S.F. The bill passed by a voice vote and was referred to the State and Local Government Committee. 1994 ( Representative Frederick ): On Thursday, March 20, 2025, the House HHS Committee heard H.F.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

For instance, the UK government’s initiative to install solar panels on National Health Service sites is projected to save each site up to £45,000 annually, amounting to approximately £13 million in total savings per year. The product manufacturers and vendors will need to be active partners as well.

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FDA Abandons Its Defense of the LDT Rule, But is It Signaling an Increase in RUO Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Mullen At midnight on Friday, May 30, 2025, the governments deadline to notice an appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texass decision vacating the LDT Rule lapsed without the government doing so. Greater scrutiny of RUO products and those companies that manufacture them could be one of those doors.

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A Short-Term Gain for a Long-Term Loss? The Build Back Better Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program Ignores Hatch-Waxman/BPCIA Realities. and that May Mean Big Bad Business for Generic Drug/Biosimilar Manufacturers

FDA Law Blog

1) publish a list of selected drugs in accordance with section 1192; (2) enter into agreements with manufacturers of selected drugs with respect to such period, in accordance with section 1193; (3) negotiate and, if applicable, renegotiate maximum fair prices for such selected drugs, in accordance with section 1194; and. (4)

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An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Merck Attacks Medicare Negotiation Program as an Unconstitutional Taking

FDA Law Blog

Recall that CMS will require manufacturers of selected drugs to negotiate a maximum fair price (“MFP”) with the agency according to the following timeline (the dates apply from applicable year 2027 onwards). N/A June 30 The manufacturer must accept the price or counteroffer—with a rationale. CMS may respond to the counteroffer.

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Get Up To Speed on Medicare Inflation Rebates: HPM Issues Memorandum Summarizing CMS Final Rule; HPM and Riparian to Co-Host Webinar

FDA Law Blog

Gaulkin Drug manufacturers wont be receiving their first invoices for Medicare Part B and Part D inflation rebates until later this year, but rebates have been accruing since first quarter 2023 for Part B rebates and October 2022 for Part D rebates. The webinar will explore the legal and operational considerations for drug manufacturers.

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CMS Proposes Rule to Implement Mandatory Medicare Part B Discarded Drug Rebates

FDA Law Blog

Under the new law, Part B will continue to pay for discarded amounts from single-dose containers, but the manufacturer must pay a rebate (called a “refund”) to Medicare for discarded amounts above a specified threshold. The manufacturer responsible for paying the refunds will be the company whose NDC is on the label.