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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. 2403 ( Representative O’Driscoll ): On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee heard H.F. Highlights follow. Read a summary of S.F. Read a summary of S.F.

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FDA Issues Proposed Order to Facilitate Minor Changes to Solid Oral Dosage Forms to OTC Monograph Drugs, but Such Changes May Come at a Price

FDA Law

The requirement for the single-unit or unit-dose containers is not a substitute for special packaging, i.e., child resistant packaging required for certain products under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act and implementing regulations. See 16 C.F.R.

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ACI’s 12th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Cosmetics & Personal Care

FDA Law

The American Conference Institutes 12th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Cosmetics & Personal Care is scheduled to take place from March 27-28, 2025, at the New York City Bar Association, New York, NY. As such, we can offer our readers a special 10% discount. FDA Law Blog is a conference media partner.

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ACI’s 43rd FDA Boot Camp – New York City Edition

FDA Law

The American Conference Institutes popular FDA Boot Camp now in its 43rd iteration is scheduled to take place from March 19-20, 2025, at the NY Bar Association in New York, NY. As such, we can offer our readers a special 10% discount. And it is exactly that! The discount code is: D10-999-FDA25.

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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law

On April 14, 2025, the Seventh Circuit overturned the criminal conviction of Mark Sorensen, the owner of a durable medical equipment (DME) distributor, who had been found guilty of violating the AKS. In the absence of such evidence, the Court held that Sorensens volume-based (i.e.,

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CMS Finalizes Guidance on Medicare Part D Manufacturer Discount Program

FDA Law

As part of this change, the Coverage Gap Discount Program (CGDP), a program that has existed since 2011, will sunset on December 31, 2024, and be replaced by the Medicare Part D Manufacturer Discount Program (the “Discount Program”). CMS will send the final manufacturer invoice for discount liabilities accrued by then on April 30, 2028.

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DEA Cranks Out Updated Special Surveillance List and Proposed Regulatory Actions

FDA Law

DEA publishes the Special Surveillance List to inform about potential illicit uses of a laboratory supply and reminds that civil penalties may be imposed on businesses that distribute a laboratory supply with reckless disregard for the illegal uses to which it will be put. 23,711 (June 4, 2025). 23,483 (June 3, 2025).