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Join ABIM Governance: apply by July 20

ABIM

ABIM Governance provides a meaningful and rewarding opportunity to join outstanding colleagues in service to the profession and to patients. Read more about how ABIM chooses members of governance. Visit ABIM’s website for more information on governance and opportunities to join. Applications are due Sunday, July 20, 2025.

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Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Common Sense Family Doctor

In 2024, the New York City Department of Health held a series of workshops on hospital emergency responses to an improvised nuclear detonation by a nonstate terrorist actor. The world is woefully unprepared for the health consequences of the use of a single nuclear device, much less a nuclear war.

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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. He emphasized ABIM’s focus on patient-centered standards and promoting high-quality care, as well as ABIM’s commitment to ensuring a diverse governance that reflects the physician and patient population. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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Supreme Court Finds CMS’ Reduction of Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for 340B Hospitals was Not Authorized by Statute

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule to significantly decrease the rate the government will reimburse 340B hospitals in 2018 for outpatient prescription drugs from average sales price (“ASP”) plus 6% to ASP minus 22.5%. By Faraz Siddiqui & Alan M. 52494 (Nov.

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GAO Report on Clinical Research Inspections Encourages FDA to Care for its Clinical Inspection Program

FDA Law Blog

Many have noted that FDA has been slow to recover We’ve blogged before on FDA’s post-pandemic inspection work, writing about the resumption of both good manufacturing practice (GMP) and bioresearch monitoring (BIMO) inspections. In 2022, the Government Accountability Office reported that FDA needed to improve its foreign inspection program.

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D.C. Circuit Sides with Manufacturers in Latest 340B Contract Pharmacy Case

FDA Law Blog

The 340B statute requires drug manufacturers to sell certain drugs at discounted ceiling prices to covered entities, which are defined by statute to include certain types of safety net hospitals, health centers, and clinics receiving federal grants. We have blogged about this controversy in previous posts (see e.g., here and here ).

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

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — Last November, we blogged about a provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that requires new rebates for discarded amounts of drugs that are covered under Medicare Part B, and that are packaged in a single-dose container or single-use package.