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FDA Tobacco Civil Money Penalty Provisions Ruled Unconstitutional, but Not Enjoined Nationwide

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In early August, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the civil money penalty (CMP) provision in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) for tobacco products, 21 U.S.C. § 333(f)(9), is...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Is FDA's Civil Money Penalty Authority Dead, and If So, What Does It Mean for Life Sciences Companies?

Does the recent decision in a federal district court in Texas, finding that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s tobacco civil money penalty authority is unconstitutional, mean the end of the federal agency bringing...more

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Regulation, Enforcement, and Associated Challenges: Part II

Given the continued challenges in policing the burgeoning ENDS marketplace, as previously discussed in Part I of this article, in mid-2024 FDA and DOJ announced the establishment of a federal multi-agency task force to combat...more

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FDA's LDT Rule Struck Down by Court: FDA Has Lost the Battle, But Is the War Over?

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A court has struck down the Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to extend its regulatory authority to clinical laboratory testing services. On March 31, 2025, in the consolidated cases American Clinical Laboratory...more

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Clinicaltrials.gov: Recent Action May Signal Increased Attention from FDA on Trial Data Reporting Compliance

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a notice of noncompliance to the FADOI Foundation, citing the organization’s failure to submit required clinical trial results to ClinicalTrials.gov. The notice...more

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Medical Device Company Settles Fraud Charges With SEC, Agrees to Pay $175m Civil Penalty and Retain Compliance Consultant

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On December 16, 2024, the SEC announced settled charges against Becton, Dickinson and Company for misleading investors about risks associated with its continued sales of one of its key products and overstating its income by...more

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OIG’s Perspective on Discount and Refund Programs

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) recently issued Advisory Opinion No. 24-04, which primarily addressed a Refund Program offered by a U.S. pharmaceutical company affiliate....more

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FDA Unauthorized ENDS Enforcement: 2024 Mid-Year Roundup

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In the first half of 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has continued to ramp up efforts to limit sales of unauthorized electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). We previously reported on FDA’s heightened...more

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Supreme Court in Jarkesy Limits the SEC’s Powers to Use In-House Administrative Courts

On June 27, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the closely-watched SEC v. Jarkesy, holding that the SEC could no longer seek civil monetary penalties for fraud in its in-house courts consistent with the Seventh...more

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OIG Permits Medical Device Manufacturer’s Cost-Sharing Subsidies for Medicare Beneficiaries in Clinical Trial

Last month, in the last advisory opinion issued by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) in 2023 – Advisory Opinion No. 23-11 (the “Opinion”) – OIG “blessed” an arrangement involving a medical device manufacturer (the...more

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OIG Opinion: DME Supplier Subsidy of Medicare Cost-Sharing in Cardiac Trial OK

This favorable OIG opinion concludes that although the proposed arrangement (“Proposed Arrangement”) to subsidize Medicare cost-sharing obligations for Medicare patients in a cardiac clinical trial (“Study”) would constitute...more

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FDA Maintains Heightened Enforcement Against Sellers of Illegal E-Cigarettes

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In December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to online retailers for reportedly selling unauthorized e-cigarette products. Consistent with the Center for Tobacco Products’ (CTP) recent...more

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FDA Continues ENDS Enforcement with New Injunction and Civil Money Penalty Proceedings

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently filed new injunction and civil money penalty proceedings against unauthorized, flavored e-liquids and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) manufacturers and...more

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Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 10

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A mobile application developer of ovulation and period tracking software agrees to pay civil penalties and 20 years of independent monitoring for violating the Health Breach Notification Rule for sharing sensitive personal...more

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Healthcare Enforcement in a Post-Pandemic World

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After a year-over-year reduction in drug, device, and biologic Warning Letters from 2012 through 2019, Warning Letters spiked to pre-2014 levels in 2020 during the pandemic. This was due in large part to a significant number...more

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OIG Issues Favorable Opinion Regarding Pharmaceutical Company’s Free 14-Day Drug Supply to Patients Experiencing a Delay in...

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On February 28, 2023, OIG posted Advisory Opinion 23-02, responding to a request by a pharmaceutical company (the Company) regarding its proposal to offer a free 14-day supply of an enzyme replacement therapy drug to patients...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Medical Device Company to Pay Over $700,000 To Resolve Criminal Allegations

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Medical Device Company to Pay Over $700,000 To Resolve Criminal Allegations - On January 4, 2023, a criminal information was filed in the Southern District of Illinois, in which Jet Medical Inc. (Jet), a medical device...more

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U.S. Senate Passes Significant Drug Pricing Reform in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

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​​​​​​​On August 7, 2022, the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes some of the most significant drug pricing-related changes since the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement...more

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OIG Determines That a Program to Provide Free Eye Drops to Eligible Patients Undergoing a Particular Treatment is Not Subject to...

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On December 6, 2021, OIG issued an advisory opinion (Advisory Opinion No. 21-19) to a pharmaceutical manufacturer regarding its arrangement to provide free eye drops to patients who are prescribed one of the manufacturer’s...more

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CMS Issues Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for CY 2022

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On July 19, 2021, CMS published a proposed rule to update the payment policies, payment rates and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory...more

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I Know There Was Something I Forgot to Do: FDA Issues Notice of Noncompliance for Failure to Submit Required ClinicalTrials.gov...

On April 27, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration issued its first Notice of Noncompliance to a pharmaceutical company for failure to submit required information to the ClinicalTrials.gov databank operated by the National...more

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Healthcare Law Update: April 2021

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William F. Gould In United States v. Merino, No. 19-50291, 2021 WL 754589 (9th Cir. Feb. 26, 2021), the court of appeals reversed the conviction of Marina Merino of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in violation of 18...more

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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion (No. 21-01) on Free Drug Program

On March 18, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a favorable Advisory Opinion No. 21-01 (Opinion) regarding a free drug program sponsored by a pharmaceutical manufacturer of a personalized cell and gene therapy...more

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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Regarding Free Drug Provided by Pharmaceutical Manufacturer to Patients

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On March 18, 2021, OIG issued Advisory Opinion 21-01, addressing whether a pharmaceutical manufacturer may provide a personalized medicine made from a patient’s own cells as a one-time, potentially curative treatment (the...more

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Free FQHC COVID-19 Testing Approved by OIG

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As previously discussed, on April 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a process for inquiries to be submitted to OIG about whether administrative enforcement...more

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