Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

Key Changes: It implements a base year payment rate structure effective January 1, 2026, which will set specific payment rates for various levels of care, including outpatient and residential treatment services, and mandates annual adjustments based on the Medicare Economic Index, beginning January 1, 2027. Read a summary of HF 1005.

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As we mentioned in our blog post, this first sunset date was originally in September, but was given a brief reprieve until December 20, 2024, as part of a continuing resolution to keep the government funded until that date. As December 20 approached, there was a need for another continuing resolution to keep the government funded.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 30, 2025

cereals and all foods served in K-12 schools by mid-2026, and J.M government banned Red No. . “As their diverse dietary preferences and nutritional needs evolve, we evolve with them.” ” Nestle said 90% of its U.S. products already contain no synthetic dyes. food companies. products by 2027. products by 2027.

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FDA Law

MARCH 5, 2024

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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FDA Law

OCTOBER 13, 2024

A very important aspect of the program is that it costs FDA, and the government, no additional dollars, though we do not wish to minimize the additional resources a priority review demands over the standard review that such an application might otherwise receive. The program, however, has always had a scheduled sunset date.

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FDA Law

JUNE 26, 2023

September 1, 2023 will be the selection date for the 10 drugs that will be subject to “maximum fair price” ceilings under Medicare Part D starting in 2026. that Congress may not delegate to an agency the authority to arbitrarily set pricing while “barring judicial review of many decisions critical to pricing determinations under the Act.”

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2025, the Secretary would select no more than 10, 15 in 2026, 15 in 2027, and 20 in 2028 and subsequent years. While this blogger does not have any particular comments on whether or not the idea of government drug price negotiation is good or bad, the way it has been structured in H.R. Let’s put a little more detail on that.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 4, 2023

According to the court, the Constitution guarantees no right to conduct business with the government, so the consequences of that participation can be “conditioned by regulation” without being considered unconstitutional. As such, that statute was unjust, confiscatory and violated their constitutional due process rights.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

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. The group discussed some of Dr. McDonald’s updates in greater detail.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

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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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Gertz, MD, MACP, Chair, ABIM Hematology Board The Hematology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on May 2, 2025. A representative from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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ABIM

MAY 30, 2025

Lieske, MD , raised concerns about how new government policies may affect international medical graduates and health equity work at ABIM. Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Rodriguez, MD , Chair of the Nephrology Board, and John C.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 14, 2022

The number will begin in 2026 with 10 drug covered under Medicare Part D and will increase annually to 20 Part B and 20 Part D drugs by 2029 and thereafter, with the selected drugs accumulating from year to year.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

But the administration is seeking to cut government funding that could serve as a counterweight. The Trump administration has declared that it will aggressively combat chronic disease in America. The report denounces industry-funded research on chemicals and health as widespread and unreliable. Kennedy Jr.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 3, 2021

The rule was estimated to cost the federal government around $196 billion over ten years. Section 90006 of the proposed infrastructure bill would further delay implementation of the rebate rule until January 1, 2026, providing the government with an estimated savings of $49 billion. See bipartisan bill summary at 5.

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FDA Law

JUNE 27, 2022

However, because the rule was projected to cost the federal government about $196 billion over ten years, further moratoria on implementation of this rule have become a handy way for Congress to pay for other legislative priorities.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

The HHS budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 makes no mention of vaccine safety programs. Kennedy Jr. forced him out in May. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome. The current U.S.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Given the numerous changes in policy by the Trump administration, there had been much speculation that the government would now take a different position on this Biden-era rule. FDA had been scheduled to hold a webinar on the Stage 2 (May 2026) requirements related to the investigational device requirements for LDTs later this month.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This bill, which addresses numerous areas of the economy, public health, and government regulation, includes Subtitle E, Drug Pricing. Subtitle E is a slightly modified version of H.R. 3, the Elijah E. The AIM price is the volume-weighted average price of the drug in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the U.K.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Dangerous changes loomed: To compensate for tax cuts for the wealthy, Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill and budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 threaten to curtail Medicaid, which provides health coverage for people with low incomes and disabilities. In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Government-backed universal coverage has eluded U.S. ” Yet subsequent efforts to expand coverage to all Americans were met with backlash from unions who wanted health insurance as a bargaining chip, providers who didn’t want government oversight, and those who had coverage through their employers.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

Maria is among what the federal government estimates are 2.6 without legal permission — along with the providers and community workers that help them — are anxiously weighing the benefits of pushing forward with Medi-Cal applications against the risks of discovery and deportation by the federal government.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A final OIG rule to change the structure of manufacturer rebates to Medicare Part D and Medicaid Managed Care plans and their PBMs is enmeshed in litigation and is likely to be at least postponed until 2026 (see our post ), and perhaps prevented from implementation altogether, by Congressional mandate. Last Thursday, the U.S.

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