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Episode 303 --- Deep Dive into the HHS-OIG Compliance Program Guidance
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Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
On May 12, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients.” In part, the EO revisits previous efforts during Trump's...more
On August 13, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening America’s pharmaceutical supply chains. Officially titled “Ensuring American Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilience by Filling the Strategic...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration ("HRSA") plans to implement a limited pilot program that will allow approved manufacturers to issue post-purchase rebates for 340B covered outpatient drugs rather than upfront...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
The Administration issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14293: Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines on May 5, 2025...more
On August 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) issued a call for applications for a 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (the “Pilot Program”)....more
The 340B Drug Pricing Program (“340B Program”) space continues to be a hive of activity. While 340B stakeholders continue to litigate ongoing manufacturer contract pharmacy restrictions, states legislatures are enacting...more
On July 31, 2025, the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) announced the availability of a voluntary 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (the “340B Rebate Pilot” or the “Pilot”) that would test, for a limited...more
On July 31, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a much-anticipated 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (Pilot Program) via guidance (Guidance) that will be formally published on August 1, 2025. The...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) once again addressed an industry-sponsored genetic testing program, posting a favorable decision on July 2, 2025 in Advisory Opinion (AO)...more
Federal Court Imposes Nearly $1 Billion in FCA Damages and Penalties Against Omnicare and CVS - On July 7, Southern District of New York District Judge Colleen McMahon increased a False Claims Act (FCA) judgment from $136...more
The Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services announced the reinvigoration of a False Claims Act (“FCA”) Working Group, a joint effort between the two agencies. ...more
On June 12, 2025, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced the End Prescription Drug Ads Now Act, with Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Dick Durbin...more
President Trump’s executive orders and legislative proposals from Congress leverage FDA to help lower drug prices, address anti-competitive practices, and accelerate generic drug approvals....more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on June 17, 2025, the creation of a new initiative called the "Commissioner's National Priority Voucher" (CNPV)...more
Some commentators are expecting that further details regarding the so-called most favored nation (MFN) pricing policy will be released in the coming days, while other sources indicate that no further information beyond a...more
Welcome to FDA in Flux – A Mintz newsletter tracking rapid changes in policy and agency actions that impact medical, life sciences, and consumer product investment decisions and development strategies....more
A federal judge in D.C. recently ruled in favor of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”), an administrative agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), by finding that drug...more
Welcome to Vital Signs, a curated compilation of the latest legal and regulatory developments in digital health....more
On May 12, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14297 targeting prescription drug prices in America. The stated purpose of this order is to combat high drug prices in the United States, bringing the prices Americans...more
In a May 15, 2025, opinion, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied drugmakers’ motions for summary judgment against the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Health...more
President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) on May 12, 2025 to address the high cost of prescription drugs in the United States with the goal of ensuring Americans have access to most-favored-nation (MFN) pricing,...more
In April, McDermott gathered more than 100 health and life sciences innovators, investors, business leaders and advisers in Paris for our annual European Health & Life Sciences symposium. With such an esteemed crowd available...more