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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. The asset limit for a household would be $2,000 for an individual and $3,000 per couple.

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AstraZeneca’s Challenge to Price Negotiation Fails in Federal District Court

FDA Law

AstraZeneca also claimed that CMS’s revised guidance on the Negotiation Program for Price Applicability Year 2026 (“Guidance”) interpreted the IRA in two very faulty ways, which violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and harmed and will continue to harm the company. Opinion at 17. see also 42 U.S.C. 1320f-1(e)(1)(A).

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A Temporary Extension for the Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher with a Longer-Term Extension in Sight?

FDA Law

Designed to incentivize the development of drugs for pediatric rare diseases where such development may not otherwise have occurred, vouchers may be granted for drugs for serious or life-threatening rare diseases where the serious or life-threatening manifestations primarily affect individuals aged from birth to 18 years.

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Small Change: FDA’s Final Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP) Guidance Ditches ML and Adds Some Details, But Otherwise Sticks Closely to the Draft

FDA Law

Post-market surveillance plans and procedures (PMS) are a requirement under ISO 13485 which will be adopted into FDAs Quality Management System Regulation in 2026. Consistent with the draft guidance, it contains a significant level of detail on the fundamental principles that should govern the design and development of AI-based software.

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Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. She also sought input on overlapping aspects of community practice across the disciplines of internal medicine to inform ABIM’s recruitment efforts for broad physician representation in governance roles.

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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. She also sought input on overlapping aspects of community practice across the disciplines of internal medicine to inform ABIM’s recruitment efforts for broad physician representation in governance roles. There was agreement on a broad need for safe, structured, team-based care.

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Infrastructure Bill Set to Delay Trump-era Rebate Rule to Raise Cash

FDA Law

CMS estimated that the rule would result in savings in individual out-of-pocket costs but such savings would be more than offset by increased premiums. The rule was estimated to cost the federal government around $196 billion over ten years. See bipartisan bill summary at 5.