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GLP-1 Shortage Ended: Can You Still Legally Prescribe or Compound Semaglutide and Tirzepatide?

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For the past several years, physicians and compounding pharmacies have stepped in to address critical patient access gaps during U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shortage declarations for semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy)...more

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FDA Update: Current Guidelines for Semaglutide and Tirzepatide Compounding

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Weight loss clinics, telehealth companies, physicians, and pharmacies that have been prescribing or dispensing compounded GLP-1 medications must prepare for significant changes following the Food and Drug Administration’s...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Doctor Seeking to Use Mushrooms to Aide Terminal Patients: How We Learned to Question the...

It’s funny how things work out – sometimes you find yourself living in a sort of butterfly effect where the tail seems to wag the dog. In 2023, when we first started writing about the traction psychedelics were gaining as...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Second Circuit Adopts At-Least-One-Purpose Rule For Anti-Kickback Statute Violations

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At the end of December, the Second Circuit joined several other circuit courts in holding that a plaintiff adequately pleads an Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) violation when she states with the requisite particularity that at...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: Senators Introduce Bill to Allow for Medicaid Direct Primary Care Models; Congress Works to Negotiate...

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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

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - November 2024 #3

News Briefs - New FDA Guidelines Aim to Make TV Drug Ads Clearer, More Direct - The ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking, or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look, as new rules...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - October 2024 #3

News Briefs - FTC Finalizes Providers' Reporting Rules Prior to M&A - The Federal Trade Commission finalized changes to a rule that will require healthcare companies, including hospitals and providers, to provide more...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: HHS Announced Updates on Response to IV Fluid Shortage and 233 Members Call on House Leadership to...

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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

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Health Care Week in Review: CMS Releases Final Medicare Prescription Payment Plan Part 2 Guidance

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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

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight Health Dose: February 6, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

All Mixed Up: FDA Issues Two Guidances Relating to Compounding Using Bulk Drug Substances

When we think of compounding, which is the process of combining, mixing, or altering ingredients to create a medication specific to the needs of an individual patient, we think of the Cars’ 1978 classic, “It’s All Mixed Up.”...more

Cozen O'Connor

Notice of Appeal - A quarterly newsletter reviewing Third Circuit opinions impacting white collar defense lawyers - Fall 2023

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BACKGROUND- A sugar distributor sought to acquire a sugar producer. The district court determined that the relevant product market included distributors as sources of refined sugar, in addition to sugar producers. The...more

Oberheiden P.C.

The FDA’s Scrutiny of Novo Nordisk is Likely to Trigger Additional Semaglutide Investigations

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Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that it is investigating allegations that a 60 Minutes segment on the popular body weight loss drug Wegovy was actually an advertisement promoting the...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Food & Drug Newsletter - February 2023

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a roundup of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

11th Annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review 2022

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We are pleased to bring you our 11th annual Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Review. Our Review provides comprehensive coverage of the most significant civil and criminal enforcement issues facing healthcare providers. Each year, we...more

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Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - July 2021

When we get sick, all too many of us respond reflexively: Ring up the doctor, wolf down some prescribed pills, and everything, we hope and trust, will turn out fine. That approach is problematic on many levels, especially...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

Sands Anderson PC

Rescission of Revisions to the Vaccine Injury Table

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On July 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to amend the Vaccine Injury Table by removing Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration (“SIRVA”),...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Big Pharma’s twist: Billions in opioid settlements convert into huge tax breaks

While too many Americans struggle with skyrocketing prescription drug costs, so much so that a $10 insurance co-payment may be lethally dissuasive, Big Pharma firms are seeking billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded benefits...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

CMS Hikes Payment for COVID-19 Inpatients Treated With New Drugs, Links it to 20% Bonus

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 39 (November 2, 2020) - CMS said Oct. 28 that Medicare will pay hospitals extra when they treat inpatients with drugs or biologicals approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trump Administration Issues Proposed Policies to Facilitate Importation of Prescription Drugs from Canada, Other Countries

• FDA issues a Proposed Rule to allow states and other entities to import certain prescription drugs from Canada. • In addition, FDA issues draft guidance for industry to explain how drug manufacturers can import their own...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

Washington Healthcare Update - October 2019 #4

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This week in Washington: Senate to hold a hearing on eligibility requirements under the Medicaid program, as well as a hearing to review a number of healthcare bills, including OTC drug safety, innovation and reform....more

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Healthcare Law Update: October 2019

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In recent years, the healthcare industry has been turning greater attention to the need to engage or involve patients in developing new technologies and systems to improve healthcare delivery. These patient engagement...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Health care plagued by cases of a persistent pathology — unmitigated gall

There seems to be a never-ending outbreak of a certain kind of pathology in the United States. Big Pharma has it and spreads it around, a lot. So, too, do public health figures. Let’s call this scourge what it is —...more

McGuireWoods Consulting

Washington Healthcare Update - August 2019 #1

Congress - House - House Passes Short-Term Funding Extension for Medicaid Pilot Program - On July 30, the House passed a bill to keep a $1 billion Medicaid pilot providing mental health and addiction services running...more

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