Following in the footsteps of other states, New Jersey’s state legislature has recently signed into law three bills for containing prescription drug costs. One bill—Senate Bill 1615—is likely to have a particularly sweeping...more
As their 2023 sessions draw to a close, mostly part-time state legislatures have continued their efforts throughout the spring to promote drug price transparency across the prescription drug supply chain. Notable among these...more
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The Biden administration announced on January 30, 2023 that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) would officially end on May 11, 2023. The PHE declaration, which first was issued by the Secretary of the US Department of...more
COVID-19 significantly affected home-based care providers, such as home health agencies (HHAs) and hospices, whose staff had to overcome both physical and mental burdens of going into patients’ homes to deliver care,...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (CAA), the massive $1.7 billion spending bill signed into law on December 29, 2022, had a number of important healthcare “gems” included. A critical provision for substance use...more
The US Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General have identified a wire fraud scheme to sell false and fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Coined as...more
On October 3, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the US Department of Health and Human Services issued a report titled “UPICs Hold Promise to Enhance Program Integrity Across Medicare and Medicaid, But Challenges...more