FDA Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas imposed a $275,000 civil penalty on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, in San Antonio, and its pharmacist-owner. The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. On October 10th, based on ability to pay, the U.S. 11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). Zarzamora Press Release.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Dr. Johnson led a discussion with the Rheumatology Board on community practice in rheumatology to create a more inclusive understanding of its role and scope. Dr. Dave added that many rheumatologists need better access to resources on contract negotiations, insurance updates and healthcare disparities.

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

This burden of the disease is being felt by patients and healthcare providers. Specific Challenges in IBD Care Even in a country with advanced healthcare, living with IBD in the U.S. Despite living in Southern California, with what many would consider strong access to healthcare, I went undiagnosed for over five years.

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FDA Law

MAY 19, 2025

We have regularly posted on recognized prescribing red flags that pharmacists have ignored that resulted in administrative or civil actions by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) including against Gulf Med and Coconut Grove pharmacies in Florida and Zarzamora Healthcare LLC in Texas.

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FDA Law

JUNE 27, 2024

District Court for the District of Texas on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC for repeatedly dispensing opioids and other controlled substances “by filling prescriptions while ignoring red flags.” paid for some medications with insurance while paying for other controlled medications in cash, and Patient M.W. Patient J.C.’s 21 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note that EKRA’s reach is broader than the Anti-Kickback Statute, which applies only to “federal healthcare programs” — e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, etc. His job was governed by an employment contract that contained both salary provisions and restrictive covenants. 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Healthcare costs in the United States have continued to increase over time without a commensurate improvement in health outcomes. This research highlights the inverse association between rising healthcare costs and the health of Ohioans.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note that EKRA’s reach is broader than the Anti-Kickback Statute, which applies only to “federal healthcare programs” — e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, etc. His job was governed by an employment contract that contained both salary provisions and restrictive covenants. 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Our patients stay with us for just a really long time and longer than any other health insurance. I know for a fact that the government or legislators looked to us in Permanente. I’ve heard numbers of 15 years on average that our patients stay with Permanente, and that’s because of Permanente Medicine. By the way.

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Pamela Wible MD

JULY 2, 2025

military healthcare program $6,000 per tube. His license revoked, his high-risk patients left without care, Aaron was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for insurance fraud. government convicted him for distributing controlled substances. Remember: First, do no harm to the government.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 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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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

at 62,341; see Jones Total Healthcare Pharmacy, L.L.C. The Government alleged that Gulf Med regularly filled prescriptions for patients who traveled “an unusual distance” to obtain their prescriptions. Cash payment for controlled prescriptions rather than payment by insurance (or worker’s compensation) is another red flag.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. Part of it’s what Mike was saying, it’s accountability as a country, as a nation and as the government. Eric: So Isaac, is the actionable item change in US healthcare system financing?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Eric: You got this depot in the high layer, so absorption is really governed by the microcirculation to that stratum corneum and skin… Alex: We’re going deep here – Eric said “stratum corneum. Eric: That’s probably why we see in cachectic patients, we see it’s a very huge variable absorption. Janet: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

For nearly 40 years, EMTALA has been understood by medical providers and the federal government — including both Democratic and Republican administrations — to require abortion care when that care is needed to stabilize pregnant patients in a medical crisis. Find out more at doctorsforamerica.org and on BlueSky @drsforamerica.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Progress was made on reducing the burden of prior authorizations by the passage of LD 796.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Insurance companies. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. Eric 11:54 And also lots of other things we don’t even think about too revolve around this life insurance and whether or not how much you can sue your doctor or healthcare providers for depends if the patient’s still alive or if they’re dead.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. Why do we need to do more?

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Doctors for America

JULY 2, 2025

The lawsuit challenges a newly finalized rule that imposes surprise fees, weakens coverage standards, and creates bureaucratic burdens for people trying to access ACA health insurance. Americans deserve a government that protects their health, not one that puts it at risk. million Americans losing their health coverage.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Officials at CMS say they are looking into whether they can block federal Medicaid or insurance funding to hospitals that offer such care. The federal government has already cut off hundreds of millions of dollars from U.S. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should protect healthcare, not politicize it,” she added.

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FDA Law

JULY 12, 2021

Kirschenbaum — On Friday, President Biden issued a wide ranging Executive Order seeking to address overconcentration, monopolization, and unfair competition in the U.S. Among the Order’s mandates for DHHS are several relating to prescription drugs.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

An immigrant without legal status, Maria doesn’t have health or dental insurance. Maria is among what the federal government estimates are 2.6 Just over half of public health insurance recipients in California are Latino, compared with just 30% of Medicaid enrollees nationwide. That’s more than she can afford.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

One of the best-known programs born via reconciliation is the “COBRA” health insurance continuation, which allows people who leave jobs with employer-provided insurance to keep it for a time, as long as they pay the full premium. That is unusual.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department.

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