In this episode, Alan Minsk, AGG Food & Drug practice chair and Life Sciences co-chair, and Brian Stimson, co-chair of the Healthcare practice and former acting general counsel and principal deputy general counsel of the U.S....more
8/15/2025
/ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Kickbacks ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Rulemaking Process ,
SCOTUS ,
Trump v CASA
The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) have announced the formation of a newly strengthened False Claims Act (“FCA”) Working Group, signaling a more coordinated and...more
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced plans to close six of the nation’s 10 regional offices for the HHS Office of the General Counsel (“OGC”). These closures, which...more
Nonparticipating providers have often struggled to recover fair reimbursement from vertically integrated, well-resourced Medicare Advantage Organizations (“MAOs”) through out-of-network litigation. The pattern is...more
Ending 40 years of judicial deference to administrative agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes governing them, the Supreme Court of the United States finally pulled the plug on this experiment that it, just five...more
7/23/2024
/ Administrative Agencies ,
Administrative Authority ,
Administrative Procedure Act ,
Affordable Housing ,
Chevron Deference ,
Chevron v NRDC ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Government Agencies ,
HUD ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Urban Planning & Development ,
USDA
In this episode, AGG Healthcare Litigation co-chair Jason Bring continues his discussion on agency deference with AGG Healthcare Litigation partner Brian Stimson in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's opinion in Loper Bright...more
Ending 40 years of judicial deference to administrative agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes governing them, the Supreme Court of the United States finally pulled the plug on this experiment that, just five years...more
In this episode, AGG Healthcare Litigation co-chair Jason Bring discusses the evolving landscape of agency deference with AGG Healthcare Litigation partner Brian Stimson. Brian explains the types of agency deference —...more
On April 4, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published its Final Rule amending the existing Medicare Advantage (“MA”) agent broker compensation regulations. The Final Rule has significant...more